Thoughts from a Battlefield
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Uploaded by vlogbrothers on May 25, 2011
In which Hank talks about the Nez Perce war and the Battle of the Big Hole. Katherine and I stopped by the Big Hole Battlefield on the way home from a mini-vacation.
"I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people." Chief Joseph
"With women's hearts breaking, children weeping and men silent, we moved over the divide and closed our eyes upon our once happy homes. We were wanderers on the prairie. For what? For white man's greed. The white man wanted the wealth our people possessed; he got it by the destruction of our people. We who yesterday were rich are beggars today, made so by the order of a Christian white chief. We have no country, no people, no home. We do not desire longer life, and we pray day and night that the Great Spirit will remove us"
Chief White Bird, October 22nd, 1877
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The celts
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I am Mi'kmaq, I still live in my area!
Those things weren't "lost," they were they were stolen.
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Ha. It's funny tomorrow I'm writing an exam about how the Mi'kmaqs lived before the europeens come.
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I live just outside the Fort Boise Indian Reservation. While there is little evidence that Native Americans live right where my parents house is now, there were a lot of Shoshoni and Bannock living in that Area, also some Nez Peirce. Idaho has a lot of Native History (NOW COME TO BOISE)
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From the UK, I believe our native people were the Smurfs. Or at least that's how Hollywood portrays them.
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The native American topic is something that I have become obsessed with mostly about the fact of how native tribes own like 75ish% of the USA If we were to oh I don't no follow the legal treaty's our government signed!!!! I did a lot of research and reading on this in 8th grade an its really depressing and just messed up like how we took pictures of us giving them blankets like oh hey we're so nice...yah those blankets were from the small pox ward...well I lived in Cali until 6 years ago and I
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Yay Dollhouse!!
2 weeks ago in playlist More videos from vlogbrothers 2
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Hey there John and Hank and people of the interwebs!
I'm a new Nerdfighter from Britain and have jsut started on YouTube and I am just trying to publicise my videos at the mo. Could you guys thumb this comment and be totally awesome!
Much love guys and DFTBA!
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@alessan Funny Story, I was about 22 when I learned how to pronounce Friedrich Nietzsche's last name.. Up until that time, I pronounced it the way we apparently are not supposed to pronounce "niche". Cheers!
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I live in Edinburgh, Scotland. Needless to say a lot of history, Originally the site of Edinburgh castle was a pictish hill fort but the picts kinda vanished. They basically ended up integrating with the Scots to ensure both their survival. This has happened a lot in early British history, groups merging to hold off the new thing which eventually settles and merges with everyone else. That said, Scotland has been a disputed territory a lot and fought over a lot with a lot of bloodshed
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@CasiEspanola I think everyone knows that Native Americans still live in this country. No one was implying that they no longer exist at all. But to say that American colonialism and the "Manifest Destiny" movement did not all but destroy their culture is a little bit on the naive side. Want proof? Look at a map of the native peoples' old territories and go take a look at that territory now. You'll find that it looks very, very different.
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Well, I live in California, which the US took from Mexico, and before the Spanish took it over and murdered so many of the natives with their plagues and greed, it contained 70 distinct native tribes, according to Wikipedia. California is apparently very good at getting people to kill eachother.
TheLonelyImmortal 6 months ago 8