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@louise1595
November 4, 2025 at 5:58 pm
I like that he pauses instead of saying “uh” “em” (im jealous)
@christopherknowles
November 4, 2025 at 5:58 pm
Adult with a pony tail
@watermoof4914
November 4, 2025 at 6:46 pm
Adult still being cringe and edgy.. adding nothing to this world.
@patlussenden4536
November 4, 2025 at 6:01 pm
I caught a few Pow Wow videos recently and saw that they featured Hawaiian dancers. Hawaiians were the Native Americans I grew up with. Not sure if this is a recent thing but was excited to see Pac Islanders to be included.
@GodOfTheDisturbed
November 4, 2025 at 6:05 pm
Is their any native American history that can be corroborated with the Mormon point of view?
@hollybug-76542
November 4, 2025 at 7:30 pm
No
@Mushie.TheMushroomGi
November 4, 2025 at 6:07 pm
Peyote is a cacti 23:01
@Mushie.TheMushroomGi
November 4, 2025 at 6:08 pm
But broadly stated, yes, it is a plant
@jliller
November 4, 2025 at 6:12 pm
Native Americans are only called “Indians” because Christopher Columbus thought he had reached the (East) Indies in 1492. That anyone is still using that geographically inaccurate term over 500 years later is really irksome to me.
@shootthatmonkey
November 4, 2025 at 6:18 pm
I appreciate his objectivity
@neskire
November 4, 2025 at 6:21 pm
I was told during a course studying the Nimiipuu people (also known as the Nez Perce) of Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington, that it was once estimated that 18 million Native people lived in North and South America before the arrival of Columbus. That estimate is now 80 million. It is now believed that diseases such as smallpox tore through the populations in a form of unintentional “biowarfare”. The Nimiipuu people refer to this as “the time of dying”. ☹ (80 million was the combined population of Europe and Russia at that time.)
@epluribusunum1460
November 4, 2025 at 6:26 pm
Many, many years ago I heard an author interview (on NPR, I think) for a book about the Shakers in which she wrote that some celibate Shakers abducted Native American children for the future of the community. I’ve never pursued it, but I’d really like to know if it is true.
@scottyharp
November 4, 2025 at 6:36 pm
Give them back the land!
@Michi58042
November 4, 2025 at 6:41 pm
2:13 As someone born and raised in South Florida I immediately recognized the Seminole sign and the guitar hotel at the hard rock casino 🎸🎰
@justayoutuber1906
November 4, 2025 at 6:44 pm
The current administration wants to whitewash our history, but when you learn about some of the things early America did, it is quite shocking.
@brandothecatmeow
November 4, 2025 at 6:48 pm
I was hoping someone would ask about two spirit people. This was an informative and brutal video. I have always loved the Native community, and it breaks my heart to know the atrocities they have endured over the centuries.
@cabezadepija7318
November 4, 2025 at 6:53 pm
13:34 always gotta point fingers at the white man to keep your racket alive huh?
@AZTLANSOLDIER13
November 4, 2025 at 6:59 pm
Reservations and tribes aren’t sovereign. They cant have a military, they have to allow government access, theyre bound by federal laws including taxation, they cant make agreements with foreign nations. Its fake. If you were truly sovereign all i just said would’nt apply. I sympathize with losing a traditional way of life, but taking advantage of capitalism and the U.S. dollar and way of life, you admit that the ends justified the means when founding this country. Youre not special, youre just a modern American just like everyone else, special treatment should absolutely not be allowed. Gambling was “part of your culture”? Yeah no S, gambling was a a part of everyone’s culture
@MysticDojo
November 4, 2025 at 7:05 pm
This was really insightful I just wish when talking about Native Americans more than just the tribes in the U.S are recognized, and yes the term Native American by definition refers to all indigenous peoples of the America’s. There are many great tribes in Canada and Latin America (my own family being of Lenca descent) and all affected by European colonization whether it be the English, French, Spanish, etc. I just think it’s sad we’re forgotten about and unrepresented, in a way that’s another form of cultural erasure.
@ZA-mb5di
November 4, 2025 at 7:09 pm
15:50 fun fact: lewis and clark also carried a very early air gun with them
@castorjay1
November 4, 2025 at 7:10 pm
Please stop zooming in and out every 7 seconds
@TravisMcMurray
November 4, 2025 at 7:14 pm
Columbus’s *arrival* not *discovery* thank you making that intentional use of words.
@LeslieHernandez-vd9vh
November 4, 2025 at 7:19 pm
This is awesome ! I’m glad this was recommended to me
@hollybug-76542
November 4, 2025 at 7:33 pm
She was Northern Shoshone, not Eastern. Agua Dika
@lordburgendy6108
November 4, 2025 at 7:46 pm
So it’s Ronald Reagan’s fault reservations have casinos. Got it.
@cassandrabrowne-schneider4951
November 4, 2025 at 7:56 pm
Reparations without admitting it’s Reparations
@katherinerichardson2273
November 4, 2025 at 8:09 pm
I know very little about any of it and that’s really sad
@wildtejasxd
November 4, 2025 at 8:26 pm
This is very educational thank you.
@AsherAuxier
November 5, 2025 at 3:52 pm
I also love how he mentions that many of us still use and prefer the term “Indian” as it’s something we’ve been refers to as so long it’s reclaiming the word!
@ommyotter4064
November 5, 2025 at 4:12 pm
This is one of the best episodes of Tech Support I’ve seen! Tons of great questions.
@THEandyenglish
November 5, 2025 at 4:17 pm
If you squint, this is Bret Hart
@CatLoverx900
November 5, 2025 at 4:47 pm
Nothing on 2 spirit and long standing historical trans native Americans!?
@corpsmanh
November 5, 2025 at 4:55 pm
And not one mention of the tribal enrollment system and its plethora of flaws. It’s divisive and still being propped up by both tribal and federal governments.
@JozyRodriguez-h7y
November 5, 2025 at 5:04 pm
I LOVE NED BLACKHAWK!!! great historian, writer and person overall
@tanyanguyen3704
November 5, 2025 at 5:10 pm
I was a student of Vine Deloria. I did not know he was teh “designer?” of the Smithsonian Native American Museum 3rd and 4th floor “treaty experience’. it was already daunting in a good way, to see history’s truly ugly side on display, but to know Vine designed it, just made it more. MORE of everything.
I am glad Academic study of Native History, anthropology and archeology are being lead more and more, by indigenous people – around the world. Glad you found a field you can share with teh world, too!
@Wyndorn
November 5, 2025 at 5:15 pm
I’m sorry but arrow vs diamond for boy vs girl is pretty funny
@Fenrisson
November 5, 2025 at 5:24 pm
Random comment for engagement purposes
@emmalemon26
November 5, 2025 at 5:26 pm
Fascinating insight
@shnibby69
November 5, 2025 at 5:35 pm
Thank you, Mr. Blackhawk! Now, what I don’t get is how these many Native American casinos aren’t supplying EVERY Native American with excellent healthcare, living conditions, etc.!!!!
@frk96
November 5, 2025 at 5:43 pm
Would love to see a Palestinian come and talk about Palestinian culture and history.
@elitealice
November 5, 2025 at 6:20 pm
Nah this is crazy because he went to the same high school as me! UofD Jesuit in Detroit. First time I’ve ever seen someone on this series who I can truly relate to lol
@Mary-u7c1q
November 5, 2025 at 6:21 pm
Glad I came across this. Very interesting. Thank you.
@mayarieb
November 5, 2025 at 6:39 pm
If you’re interested in this topic, I highly recommend that you read works by native American authors, as they often weave history within even their fictional stories. These still carry the truth of what happened to their people and tribes, using storytelling to bring it alive.
@CM-ig2do
November 5, 2025 at 6:52 pm
Did he address the insane violence in NA tribes? The scalping of children and women. Cannibalism. Flaying young men in the middle of the village. ?
@runna-x5h
November 5, 2025 at 7:00 pm
Reservations, where all the softies went instead of hiding in the mountains
@tomhenry897
November 5, 2025 at 7:08 pm
State law stops at the reservation border
@Yellowsnow69420
November 5, 2025 at 7:35 pm
He mentions it a few times but not in his answer to war: what we now call America is huge; there were many distinct cultures. This applied to war as well. He doesn’t mention that they certainly engaged in more than ritualized skirmishes. Some tribes were brutal, some made “war” more of a sport, and others didn’t engage at all.
@frank93907
November 5, 2025 at 7:37 pm
Why are immigrants a thing?
@Potatoes9000
November 5, 2025 at 7:48 pm
wtf is the editing on this
@frank93907
November 5, 2025 at 7:50 pm
Should be a displacement tax that goes to local native tribes
@BayStateHistory
November 5, 2025 at 7:55 pm
I’m now officially a Ned Blackhawk fan. Love the way this guy explains things, please have him back on.
@Toucan.Sam.69
November 5, 2025 at 8:20 pm
Sken:nen gowa ✌🏻
@20stands29
November 5, 2025 at 8:25 pm
There has been war lost by the US government. But there has only been one massacre of the US forces, the 7th Calvary and General George Armstrong Custer. We the Northern Cheyenne Dogsoildgers, Elkhorn Scrapers were the first to the battle and slaughtered them in about 10 minutes. Sioux’s were still blessing themselves off by the time all men were dead, but they got all the glory!
@franciscovelasco7576
November 6, 2025 at 7:50 am
5:00 crazy you can be deported when you are born and raised here 🤦🏽♂️
@Batman-xf3bq
November 6, 2025 at 1:24 pm
Happens today in the West Bank
@dharmakelleherauthor
November 6, 2025 at 7:51 am
Thank you for sharing this. I just bought Mr. Blackhawk’s book.
I’ve lived most of my life in Arizona. The many unique native peoples here are amazing, beautiful, and distinct. The Diné (Navajo), the Nde (Apache), the Akimel O’odham (Pima), the Tohono O’odham, the Yavapai, the Piipaash (Maricopa), etc. are each beautiful cultures that have survived brutal colonialization and genocide by Euro-Americans.
Native peoples originally built the canals that fed water to what is now Phoenix. They built amazing structures hundreds of years ago that still stand to this day.
I have the deepest respect for my Native neighbors.
@lorekeepermeerah
November 6, 2025 at 7:59 am
As an indigenous historian, some of these questions caused me so much pain. It’s disgusting how little the US is taught about native cultures. I’ve had people literally say to my face ‘I thought the natives were all wiped out?’ (In Oklahoma, too. Ya know, the place that is almost entirely made up of native reservations?)
@Mychelium
November 6, 2025 at 8:13 am
About time yall dropped a video on this!
@JustAvenged
November 6, 2025 at 9:20 am
I’m curious about the state given to them, where they all live together. I’ve read on a book that they didn’t agree with it. So where do they live now?
@Lil-Ritaaa
November 6, 2025 at 10:01 am
COOLEST MAP!!!
@hollyerickson6364
November 6, 2025 at 10:39 am
It’s amazing how Native Americans have persisted and survived despite such massive devastation since European contact. My own native ancestry was almost erased with time, but the family proudly kept the stories alive.
@jameseddleman6944
November 6, 2025 at 11:04 am
In my ancestry, I’m a literal “planet mutt” like a bit of everywhere literally, I’m white and born in America, so I do identify as “native American” not “Native American”
I hope you see the difference.
@maryroberts9315
November 6, 2025 at 11:32 am
I have taken tours of the Acoma Pueblo and Taos Pueblo in New Mexico. It is a great way to learn more about the culture and history of their community. There is a museum on the reservation of the Pequot Nation in Connecticut. It is next to the Foxwoods Casino. It is one of the best museums of any kind I have ever visited! Many tribes have museums or tours to present their culture to the outside world.
@SpottedPop
November 6, 2025 at 12:21 pm
“treaties” 💩
@stamourbeaulieu
November 6, 2025 at 12:24 pm
Being a French Canadian in north of Quebec, I was really curious to hear this!!!
@JesseJayScott
November 6, 2025 at 12:25 pm
Dont forget powwows is where people go to try hookup/poonch lmao
@Roanmonster
November 6, 2025 at 12:52 pm
This feels like knowledge that history teachers in the US would be fired for for teaching under this administration
@romanthrower
November 6, 2025 at 1:08 pm
Bro sounds like he’s on the firewater
@DerrillGuilbert
November 6, 2025 at 1:47 pm
Anyone else wonder if this nice gentleman is as (rightfully) angry as Levar Burton?
@TAGER_321
November 6, 2025 at 1:48 pm
13:31 great way to skirt around the fact that tribes constantly went to war with each other. “actually Indians didn’t have “war” per say but had this ritual called okíchize were they would go over to a rival tribe and cave in all the skulls of there men and enslave all their women and children and take all there things”.
@tmp123451000
November 6, 2025 at 2:16 pm
Ned Blackhawk???? Lmao ok bro… Americans we got to stop letting white people act like they are Native American because they have 0.2% aboriginal DNA..
@kurteisner67
November 6, 2025 at 3:21 pm
??? confused Nick Young ??? Ned Blackhawk is ⅞ Native American and a registered member of the Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada. What are you talking about?
@noodlegts
November 6, 2025 at 2:28 pm
Love this man’s ability to discuss such awful things like the trail of tears in such a calm and objective manner. I guess that’s what makes him a professional.
@davestrong2
November 6, 2025 at 2:48 pm
Very interesting. Thank you. Your discussion on warfare between tribes was really limited however (your shortest responses). It is something I never learned about and would like to hear more on the topic.
@Blackmuseops
November 6, 2025 at 3:26 pm
This is basically the most criticism that the US would allow, lmao
@eloquentlight
November 6, 2025 at 4:04 pm
Dr. Blackhawk was a great choice for this – thank you!
@jonah-but-better
November 6, 2025 at 4:53 pm
The casino is a way for the natives to finally get REPARATIONS for what’s done to them 😂
@rebeccamiko9156
November 6, 2025 at 6:36 pm
Wow, very insightful. Thank you Mr. Blackhawk for educating us on the history of an entire civilization that probably doesn’t get enough attention in classrooms.
@mekilla1788
November 6, 2025 at 6:38 pm
The Jingle dress story is wrong. I am Anishinaabe of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe and our women had dreams of these dresses and were the first to create them. They came to us in a dream and we were told to move west where the food grows on water. – Manoomin, or what is known As Wild Rice in central Minnesota.
@chiefvirgobleu6744
November 6, 2025 at 7:28 pm
He’s European 🙄
@eomrat1
November 7, 2025 at 8:25 am
On the Trail of Tears it was Black slaves that died, very few natives.
@JoshSmith-ff8dw
November 7, 2025 at 11:04 am
I doubt you have a source to back that up.
@every6seconds
November 7, 2025 at 9:08 am
We could retcon the word “indian” to be a short form of “indigenous”
@David-hj6en
November 7, 2025 at 9:18 am
Conquered
@NN-ph3nq
November 7, 2025 at 9:27 am
I’ll conquer ya mama😂
@pimcramer2569
November 7, 2025 at 9:55 am
Should the world map show reservations as independent nations? Is Trump also the president of those nations?
@vaagvision4837
November 7, 2025 at 10:06 am
Dude is a 5 dollar Indian
@TheDragorin
November 7, 2025 at 11:13 am
“Did indians war with each other?” “Yeah but it was white peoples fault that it was bad. They basically played sports and had tickle fights to determine the winners before evil whitey came and forced them to adopt violence.”
@NomeDeArte
November 7, 2025 at 11:57 am
America is a continent, not a country.
@saustin2287
November 7, 2025 at 12:37 pm
How in the world can you say all of that so matter of fact? I love the knowledge you shared, but you are talking about centuries of cultural genocide with the same passion someone reading the newspaper.
@binuroy-x4c
November 7, 2025 at 1:43 pm
Ill definitely try this out.
@hagarmahmoud6952
November 7, 2025 at 2:46 pm
The trail of tears is essentially ethnic cleansing
@huh8235
November 7, 2025 at 2:46 pm
Babe it’s not gambling, it’s *gaming*. Which stimulates the tribal economy.
@StephanieMacarthy-z4h
November 7, 2025 at 3:23 pm
They ain’t doesn’t exist
@bigpanik3261
November 7, 2025 at 3:34 pm
also…to be fair….when the natives beat America…Sinclairs forcces…were attacked in the normal native way. A sneak attack catching the americans unarmed….and with a few hundred women and children in the american camp. It wasnt much of a fight….it was americans getting slaughtered mostly unarmed. Wasnt like equal forces were lined up to fight. Facts matter.
@bigpanik3261
November 7, 2025 at 3:36 pm
Anyways…i hope other people love history as much as I do. Stop letting people with agendas like this man….lie by omission which is what most of my fellow liberals do now. They tell you ONLY the part of history…that doesnt make people look bad. They basically only tell you the good parts…and that isnt real history. That is….a fluff piece. Do better.
@MGTOWforthewin
November 7, 2025 at 3:50 pm
‘Native American’ casinos are a thing because both envy and greed exist..and every ‘tribal government’ where indian 🎰 casinos are found ARE corrupt as the day is long.
@paulwiggins183
November 7, 2025 at 4:11 pm
You are doing a good job of answering some really basic [silly] questions. Cool.
@paulscanter5562
November 7, 2025 at 4:19 pm
Well done and very educational and interesting. Thanks!
@ConicalShelters-yb4uo
November 7, 2025 at 4:24 pm
Land theft, boarding schools, rapes, murders…so why do powwows have the US flag in their grand entries?
@sethEtheshark82
November 7, 2025 at 4:27 pm
I want to read this man’s book! I have always respected Native Americans and their culture. Is it taboo to date and Mary a Native American if your not a Native American?
@DanWelser
November 7, 2025 at 5:26 pm
Really life steward smallie
@CalvinKoether-ti3li
November 7, 2025 at 6:11 pm
Lol, After discussing grass dancer regalia, you show a women’s fancy dancer, a men’s fancy, THEN in the background of the chicken dancer there is finally a grass dancer 😂
@Shogundoxie1414
November 7, 2025 at 6:14 pm
Columbus never set foot in America. He landed on Haiti and Cuba!!
@katteebs9980
November 7, 2025 at 6:20 pm
As a South African who has studied our history in-depth, it’s very interesting to see the overlaps in politics around land and citizenships etc
@kyonkochan
November 7, 2025 at 6:43 pm
Even the term “Native American” is sort of a weird term because it’s like Indigenous peoples have to meet America before existing. It’s a term that almost engages in erasure because it assumes that these people want to be a part of the American cultural experience, for lack of their own culture. Imagine if Americans identified as “Native-Cree” or like a reverse way of identity where Americans assume the “Native” identity of the tribal lands they live on.
@zzeplyn
November 7, 2025 at 7:52 pm
You should have this guy back on. He’s extremely knowledgeable and impartial.
@SkyeSoleil
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 pm
The YouTube and system is making these videos almost unwatchable 😭
@ksmythe781
November 7, 2025 at 11:40 pm
BecAUSE they can’t contribute anything to society.
@anniebrinkerhoff3843
November 8, 2025 at 12:03 am
I’m wondering why Andrew Jackson is still on the $20 bill after all his atrocities.
In 6th grade, a Native American classmate did the hoop dance for a talent show which was cool! I was surprised that Mr. Blackhawk didn’t mention hoop dances, they’re popular where I live.
@EmilyTienne
November 8, 2025 at 12:07 am
Andrew Jackson was Donald Trump’s favorite president. Are we at all surprised by that?
@jessebarnes3764
November 8, 2025 at 12:09 am
Siberians
@edgargarcia4502
November 8, 2025 at 12:45 am
Love this. Love this Love this Love this. As a young man in Oregon, I met a dude named Kyle. He was half Lakota half Sioux.
To make a long story short, I assumed he was Latino. Spoke to him in Spanish. He said “Im not a b**ner I dont speak spanish.”
It ended with, “hey man, we’re both native. Only difference is we got screwed by the spanish, and you by the english.”
I pray for the day the American natives of North and South can unite. We’re too few and far apart to ever bicker amongst ourselves.
@sircaptainjiffy1152
November 8, 2025 at 3:41 am
he has a bias and did not provide all the facts regarding war.
@silverice7219
November 8, 2025 at 4:07 am
11:45 I really like saying “first nations”. It feels more appropriate to me.
@casualstone920
November 8, 2025 at 5:39 am
Is there an independence movement within the Native American communities?
@sinuheguzman9404
November 8, 2025 at 7:09 am
I don’t understand why this guy was so lukewarm to all the injustices and genocide that the indigenous people of north America had to endure and still have to face all this year into the future, i don’t like him.
@themarquee1497
November 8, 2025 at 10:10 am
The native american cultures and myths were my favorite part of childhood education. They are always so rich and soulful. I would really like to know more about them.
@flatheadwarrior
November 8, 2025 at 10:23 am
I think a good case study against this whole units you’re native then you can’t just live in these communities is the Flathead Indian reservation where the majority of the population is non-native
@apayauq
November 8, 2025 at 10:25 am
Just like settlers killed the buffalo there are settlers bulldozing Olive trees.
@T.K...
November 8, 2025 at 11:05 am
Were these questions written by 3rd graders?
@jessicabw
November 8, 2025 at 12:38 pm
Wired, could you consider in the future to keep the responses on the screen long enough to read? Please and thank you.
@DrFroyd123
November 8, 2025 at 1:12 pm
All this time and we didn’t listen the key word: genocide
@invox_in_your_inbox
November 8, 2025 at 2:06 pm
He was very meticulous with his answers…
@imjang2430
November 8, 2025 at 2:07 pm
Can you do orchestral conductors?
@raimarulightning
November 8, 2025 at 2:31 pm
So eloquent and knowledgeable. Awesome stuff
@sebdoes
November 9, 2025 at 11:59 am
how do you know if he is if youre not
@brucedavidson9499
November 8, 2025 at 5:10 pm
8:31 Normally they have really good food and some places to buy homemade goods I’d recommend going last time I got a whole bunch of blackbear steak
@SaiMaharaj-vp4yq
November 8, 2025 at 6:47 pm
Are Wendigos and Skinwalkers considered a taboo topic in Native American culture?
Who were the first people to become Wendigos and Skinwalkers? How did Native Americans combat them?
@JJW48002
November 8, 2025 at 7:37 pm
Awesome name
@Big_Caesar1
November 8, 2025 at 7:53 pm
Awesome video. It’s great to hear that the native population is growing, and i hope it continues to do so
@sebdoes
November 9, 2025 at 11:58 am
what about the white population
@Big_Caesar1
November 9, 2025 at 3:30 pm
@sebdoesThere are 235 million white people in America, so we’re doing just fine
@teenastetic3681
November 8, 2025 at 7:53 pm
God I love learned people. It’s like music to me
@sebdoes
November 9, 2025 at 11:57 am
how do you know if hes learned if you are not
@teenastetic3681
November 9, 2025 at 12:17 pm
@sebdoesI’m not in the mood
@itslexactually
November 8, 2025 at 8:02 pm
13:20 corn, beans, and squash are known as The Three Sisters because they grow at different heights, can be planted in the same soil, and require different nutrients so the arable land is not overburdened and does not have to lie fallow. It’s a very efficient growing method.
@JohnnySmacker
November 8, 2025 at 8:38 pm
beautiful
@A-bp9hq
November 8, 2025 at 9:18 pm
I didn’t know it was a thing?!
@contemplatively
November 8, 2025 at 9:22 pm
Palestinian here. Watched until the Trail of Tears and couldn’t continue.
@sebdoes
November 9, 2025 at 11:57 am
😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
@Oxmen33
November 8, 2025 at 10:29 pm
This guy needs his own YouTube channel stat
@Th3biggesthater1
November 8, 2025 at 11:35 pm
Fantastic give me five more of them.
@stippystompy
November 9, 2025 at 4:11 am
Have this dude on again!
@Commandercooll
November 9, 2025 at 5:20 am
My Native American, baby daddy is about to get another payout this week. That’s gotta be about $400,000 in the 10 years I’ve known him. Of course he’s off to rehab.
@afz3003
November 9, 2025 at 5:35 am
This is the same thing that isreal is doing to palestine.
They first only said they will have small areas of land. And then progressed to take more and more, until their goal is complete of taking all of palestine and subjugating all the palestinians.
All backed by the UK and US.
@sebdoes
November 9, 2025 at 11:56 am
Yeah or something bro
@NoTime4BS7
November 9, 2025 at 8:58 am
This uploaded just in time for Thanksgiving. The holiday of “we stole your land and killed your people”. Everybody eat up!
@RTL2L
November 9, 2025 at 11:58 am
This was really interesting. As a non American, I always wondered why there is so much support and hype behind the Amerian-African community, but almost nothing behind the people on whose land US is existing. And almost no talk about the genocide of these people.
Also, building something keeping in mind 7th generation is a beautiful and wise approach.
@jepalv23
November 9, 2025 at 5:54 pm
You answered your own question. “As a non American “. That is your perception based on where you are and the content you choose to consume. That would be like me as an American Football fan in the United States wondering why there is so much hype and support around the college football playoffs and almost nothing around the UEFA Champions League (sarcasm) must not be that popular I guess. The point is it has more to do with where I live and what content I consume.
@susanrobertson984
November 9, 2025 at 12:48 pm
Up here in Canuckistan we talk about First Nations. Part of the problem with Indians as a name is that the Inuit are not Indians. First Nations is inclusive of Inuit.
@SerPounceToebeans
November 9, 2025 at 2:01 pm
Why would you have a white person answer these questions? It should be a Native doing this.
@JctsUK
November 9, 2025 at 2:40 pm
This is said in the nicest possible way but this was the most unengaging speaker on this series. Normally you have such high energy, interesting speakers but this guy sounds like he wants to go back to bed.
@ChrisConv
November 9, 2025 at 3:02 pm
Can yall help me with a project
@nrgraff
November 9, 2025 at 3:04 pm
this is a very responsible video. This information needs to be shared. Thank you
@JBunny7482
November 9, 2025 at 6:30 pm
So cool. If anyone is in northern California and are interested, in Sacramento there’s a pretty cool native American museum right next to Sutter’s fort. It’s small, but packed with info. I didn’t even know it existed til we decided to go to the fort for free museum day! (Not sure if it’s natuon-wide, but it’s once a year here in CA, Google it 😊).
@kelly-bq2rq
November 9, 2025 at 7:19 pm
We love to gamble and have a long history of doing so.
@nickfromm5315
November 9, 2025 at 8:45 pm
The Indians have a rich culture of tobacco and gambling.
@jillfanning749
November 9, 2025 at 9:09 pm
12:14 I would also add that if the specific tribal affiliation is known, it is popular to call someone by their Tribal community. Such as: “This is an artwork by John Doe, a member of the Muscogee Nation.”
@youweremymuse
November 9, 2025 at 10:00 pm
Wow, I want 10 more of these. I loved the objectivity in this video. Native American history is often romanticized to the point it becomes more myth than fact. He handled it like the history of any other people.
@DuchessofEarlGrey
November 9, 2025 at 10:28 pm
Too bad there were no questions about Mount Rushmore. It’s not such an amazing thing when you learn about its history.
@benhendo3574
November 9, 2025 at 10:34 pm
im wrong but wasnt the first native american casino started by the CIA to launder money & manufacture weapons and the guy took all the money and murdered the native americans who started asking questions about where the money was? It was part of that Octopus Murders thing.
@shannon7882
November 9, 2025 at 10:37 pm
The casino is why I have a graduate degree. Higher education in my tribe is funded by the casino.
@timonheidema6837
November 9, 2025 at 11:05 pm
I used Blackhawk’s book ‘The Rediscovery of America’ in my Master’s thesis. This guy is an amazing historian and his book provided many new insights for me personally. I love this guy.
@OxyVille
November 10, 2025 at 9:02 am
If you wonder why there are still people justifying the occupation of Palestine, rewatch the part explaining about Trail of Tears. It’s in the nation’s blood to legally force eviction towards the weak and the innocent. Shame.
@OneEye-m4u
November 10, 2025 at 10:15 am
Thank you professor! That was the best use of 25 minutes that I’ve had all week.
@TheCinderella2711
November 10, 2025 at 11:34 am
Land Back.
@ng360ENGLISH-PORTUGUÊS-ESPAÑOL
November 10, 2025 at 1:35 pm
Mni wiconi 💧
@scottaftem497
November 10, 2025 at 2:28 pm
I’m non-tribal and have lived on two open reservations, MHA and Flathead Nation. My family has built neighborhoods and own land. On a closed reservation, like Red Lake, all land is held in common by the tribe and there is no private property.
@scottaftem497
November 10, 2025 at 2:38 pm
Celilo Falls was a tribal fishing area on the Columbia River, just east of the Cascade Mountains. Celilo was the oldest continuously inhabited community on the North American continent until 1957, when the falls and nearby settlements were submerged by the construction of The Dalles Dam.
@FrshJurassicPrnceYA
November 10, 2025 at 3:51 pm
That is the whitest Native American I’ve ever seen and I’ve met Elizabeth Warren before.
@MatthewHall-e9m
November 10, 2025 at 4:45 pm
The US Government insists that tribes have no sovereign authority over their land, that they simply own it.
@lau9076
November 10, 2025 at 5:27 pm
15:05 but gender was invented by white colonialist wee wee 😭😭😭
@junibug6790
November 10, 2025 at 5:38 pm
It’s a shame that that Mr. Blackhawk seems like he was forced to …*water down* real history in order to preserve delicate sensibilities. Saying, for example, that “lives were destroyed” during the Trail of Tears instead of telling the truth of how men and women, elderly and children were deliberately starved, marched and and frozen to death because the government officials wanted to steal their land.
@mallord7625
November 10, 2025 at 7:55 pm
This is the first time I’ve heard my language mentioned ever! I am a 29 year old Dene who grew up on the reservation, and I cannot speak my own language. Our language is disappearing quickly because past generations were punished by the schools if they spoke it.
@uchihakai
November 10, 2025 at 8:38 pm
What do Native Americas think about the Redskin changing their names to Commanders?
@scottaftem497
November 10, 2025 at 9:32 pm
I’m non-tribal and have owned property on two open reservations, MHA and Flathead Nation. On a closed reservation, like Red Lake, all land is held in common by the tribe.
@sukitttaco
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 pm
He reminds me of that white native american advocate guy on south park that says he’s 20% cherokee or something 🤭
@Gareat
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 pm
Why are native American casinos a thing? WHY NOT!
@femallorie1030
November 10, 2025 at 11:21 pm
Loved this video, and the ending question gave me hope 💜
@westonschwartz2483
November 11, 2025 at 12:01 am
Bro spoke about the Dakota’s but didn’t mention their prevalence in North DAKOTA and South DAKOTA. Smh. We’re always being forgotten about
@Power2ThePeaceful
November 11, 2025 at 2:43 am
Respect
@ProxeliVG
November 11, 2025 at 3:37 am
is he drunk
@sarahback2568
November 11, 2025 at 11:56 am
Pt 2 please with even more in depth questions! This JUST scratched the surface
@gavinmccormick3658
November 11, 2025 at 12:11 pm
Its fascinating that even though historically the First Nations of North America did not have a unified singular culture, much of modern native cultural institutions are beginning to coalesce into pan-indigenous traditions
@karlisaacjohnson5986
November 11, 2025 at 12:26 pm
I took a class with Ned at Yale–he is absolutely one of the best professors out there.
@coop3814
November 11, 2025 at 1:12 pm
The displacement of Native American tribes and nations, and the mass slaughter of buffalo, are two of the great tragedies to occur in modern human history.
@MurderMostFowl
November 11, 2025 at 1:18 pm
Man, I know he was going for polite discussion here, but I’ve never seen anyone dodge the trail of tears and Andrew Jackson’s era’s cruelty and systematic racism so bluntly. I’m a “why can’t we all just focus on the future and get along” Gen Xer and that made me uncomfortable how little he recognized the immortality of it all.
@AHop-180
November 11, 2025 at 1:20 pm
Why did they show women’s and men’s fancy when he was talking about grass dance? Where was the grass dance regalia?
@oneteo6161
November 11, 2025 at 1:56 pm
Very interesting!
@podcastingpointlessconvos
November 11, 2025 at 2:00 pm
7:33 which was where the old movies were made so makes absolute sense
@podcastingpointlessconvos
November 11, 2025 at 2:10 pm
13:55 😂 dude didn’t mention the type of rituals they were doing. Way more barbaric than any musket shot
@louvetine
November 11, 2025 at 6:51 pm
NED BLACKHAWK?!!
@capacola262743
November 11, 2025 at 7:50 pm
why is it, that indians (who have built, invented and accomplished NOTHING) are all so “PROUD” of their heritage? and white people (who invented, built, explored pretty much EVERYTHING) are not even ALLOWED to be proud of their heritage? ironic, isn’t it?
@sasfamilliarquill83squach39
November 11, 2025 at 8:17 pm
Interesting that he doesn’t mention that Native Americans never invented the wheel or domesticated livestock.
@jkim47ill
November 12, 2025 at 12:23 am
They’re not Indians and they’re not native “Americans”. Why do you keep referring to them as such? America is an Italian word. America was never called America before the whites came. Even a so called expert calls them these names 😂
@jdools4744
November 12, 2025 at 8:10 am
LMFAO this guy is white af
@TheRenegadeHamster
November 12, 2025 at 11:03 am
Really cool information and obviously there’s more discussions to be had! You could do a whole youtube channel on these topics. I’m always fascinated by cultures, especially those I’ve never interacted with properly – i.e. only through the lens of media. I want to know what’s real.
@melanierosalez6989
November 12, 2025 at 7:59 pm
This wasn’t boring.