America B.C: How Far Back Does Native American History Go? | 1491: Before Columbus | Timeline 

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As a teacher and African American it was so important to me to teach about this huge part of North America history. Thanks for this story.

I'm Anishinaabe and Irish. My grandmother was a full blooded Ojibwe who died in 1976 when I was 12. I was born, raised and still live along with all my cousins, aunts and uncles on Bay Mills reservation in the upper peninsula on Lake Superior. Our language is Anishiinaabemowin or Ojibwe to you people of European descent!

This is wonderful but heartrending. All those people lost because of ignorance, and a prejudice that continues to this day. We are all enriched by your studies and conclusions and by the heart of your people that still beats in each of you. Thanks for this.

Great video, have always known there’s more to life than meets the eye, I feel like in this life i am supposed to be doing more than i am doing for the people i love. been seeking for an eye opening enlightenment, a way to be more influential, powerful and protected~

Who would've thought a RU-vid video would be more educational than anything taught in schools.

I grew up in the shadow of Cahokia and it has been extremely influential in my appreciation and reverence for all peoples. In college we excavated a game processing camp many miles from Cahokia and the enormity of the resources needed to feed their rapidly expanding population was an incredible story all on its own. I appreciate how thoughtful and well made this documentary is and hope more will be coming in the near future.

Cherokee/Norwegian-Irish here. Our g....grandmother was on the trail of tears. Everyone says they're Cherokee, but we were on the rolls...and, she's in our Family Bible.

I do believe this is the best video I've seen on this subject. Very well done and informative. I'll be sharing with my grandchildren.

"We may never know..." the wisest words this video has offered.

im of native descent but have always seen documentaries talking about native americans from US and canada, im colombian and im muisca, so to see a documentary talking about native history that uses the term native american to encompass both sides of the continent is soo refreshing

I will forever appreciates this channei. I think it would be great if there were only 10 million people in the world , or less . I'd love to live in a place with abundant natural resources , no war , and a meditative lifestyle . And some nice cannabis sativa stands .

I support and respect the heritage of Native Americans ❤

What an amazing story is being uncovered and told! So many generations, so many lives, so many experiences! We owe a great deal to those that came before us and should pass on the best of what we have learned to those who will follow! We are all different and unique, yet we share what is most important: humanity.

It's amazing how you guys produced this kind of videos, very intersting and fascinating with a cinematic thrills. I'm not regretting hitting the subscribe button and likes to show love and respect. Thank u for always educating us world wide. Much love. ❤

Watching from Australia 🇦🇺

23,000 years ago families were walking along a lakeshore in what is now White Sands National Park. Rock solid dating on these tracks as well.

Im Mexican of indigenous Nahua descent from Mexico City and Morelos, Mexico. Through Dna testing Ancestry and 23andMe i've found family who are members of federally recognized tribes of the southwestern USA Arizona and New Mexico who are Apache/Navajo, USA Michigan & Canada Winnipeg who are Ojibwe/ Chippewa and Alaska Inupiaq people. Despite not having horses, our people travelled far and wide. Many groups of native peoples took part in the migration from Aztlan down south to what became Tenochtitlan while being guided by the God Huitzilopochtli. The people who migrated down south went from being hunter gatherers to building big cities and becoming urbanized. My Haplogroup is A2, my results 94% Native American, 4% Italian, 2% Greek. My grandmothers were the last in my family to speak Nahuatl.

I very much enjoyed this documentary and learned much from your most excellent examples and explanations. I grew us with the Sioux in the Dakotas and was always intrigued by these peoples. Thank you very much for your well-written documentary.

I'm Diné (Navajo). My parents are Diné. My grandparents on both sides are Diné. When I was a little girl I met my great grandmother's sister. She was Diné. I also met my great grandfather's brother. We called him Grandpa Rex. He spoke only Navajo. He talked about his parents, grandparents & great grandparents. They were Diné also. His favorite food to eat was traditional Diné Tanaashgiizh (blue corn mush).

Best, most objective video i have seen, and I am hooked on watching everything on the History Channel, to include repeat upon repeat.

Looks like everyone came to The Americas from elsewhere and made it their home up to and including what we all America today. What an amazing story.

Fascinating information. I've know much of it before from people and documentaries, but always good to discover more. I have visited ancient ruins all over Arizona, New Mexico, Mexico and Guatemala. They are still uncovering more and more of the Jungles near Tikal. Would be interested on new info on that area because just being on that ancient site moved me so strongly. I still dream about it. Thx

I’m full blooded Navajo and I thank the gods for my bloodline and my ancestors even though life hasn’t been easy for native people ,what country continent did we flee to for political asylum? We didn’t we stuck it out those who lived.. and when ww2 came around my father and 2 uncles left boarding school to join the military with my grandparents permission(2 navy 1 marine codetalker)& my mothers uncles(3 army 1 marine codetalker also)3 uncles in Korean conflict 5 in Vietnam my niece Iraq her brother Afghanistan 3 tours native Americans have highest % of military service and prison incarceration

Wonderful... documentaries like these show the real Sewer that USA is today.

What I always found interesting growing up in S Louis is that the Mississippi Indian Empire had its capital in what is Cahokia, IL but that they buried their dead on the other side of the River in S. Louis. So Downtown S Louis is built on top of a massive ancient Native American Cemetery.

Currently, I am sitting in front of our American Indian shrine, on Wilshire & Santa Monica Los Angeles, CA- which I am very very very proud, their the best doctors, combat money can buy. I want to share this gift I have with them, and keep our traditions & pride as long as we both shall live. We;ll lead with Bobby sherman actor. Here is my pledge for raising America & the world. Lisa

I enjoyed this very much. Thank you!

The coastal route makes good sense too. Slipping down the coast, hunting the familiar sea life, taking advantage of land for storm refuge, camping, firewood, wood and rock for tools, is what I would do, with my family. Food is more abundant and easier to take. Boats also may have provided a safe haven if big predators were a problem. Fresh water comes to the coast. Working up creeks and rivers would have provided food, water, firewood, maybe a nice place to stay. Thank you for sharing. This is extremely well done and interesting. Kentucky

I love that this features archaeologists of Native American origin. So many cultures all over the world have great floods in the origin stories, I can’t help but wonder if this is based on distant memories of their ancestors’ experiences diuring the rapid sea level rise at the end of the last glacial maximum. Ten thousand years is a long time, but I don’t think it’s impossible, especially in areas where people were largely isolated from other groups and preserved their origin stories through conservative oral histories and legends. (By conservative, I mean tending to preserve early cultural content rather than innovating a lot).

Beautiful Navajo, Brazilian native American, first American's. Keep up the good work.

Outstanding history lesson, kept me engaged from start to end.

My grandpa on my dads side CHEROKEE Cheif died at 99 yrs. Old...my grandma was Black Foot SQUAW died 98 yrs. Old... we have been looking for a log of their numbers.... i loved them so.....

Ancient footprints were found in White Sands, North America recently that are more than 21,000 years old, which adds an interesting note to this excellent story.

In the city of St Louis. MO , there were originally 11 Mounds that were leveled and used for land fill.. not far from Cahokia.

Fossilized footprints found in New Mexico rock strata show the Americas was settled AT LEAST 23,000 years ago! This is far older settlement than the 13,000 years previously known.

This is mesmerising and deeply fascinating. At the end I was left wanting to watch so much more, as I was completely engrossed in the stories, and thinking about the similarities between these nations and our own NZ Maori people. 🙆🏻‍♀️

I believe many origin stories are actually about how that nation formed rather than creation, specifically, that is, the ones that go against other stories. For instance, my nation’s story is that we came from a local mountain, in fact most Apache stories start in that mountain range, maybe that’s just where the Apache identity was formed

Askwali. Beautifully done! One of the best films Ive ever seen with our Indigenous archeologists and scholars. Look forward to more. 👍🏽

The ending of this documentary made me cry so much. I don't know why. I just felt sad for their suffering. I feel like they did all those things for us. Their future self. They had a clear vision of what they wanted to achieve.❤

As a kid at the movies I was always on the side of the "Red Indians". They looked so much more interesting than the cowboys or the cavalry. GREEN FIRE!

I love the study of Genetics and look forward to seeing our origin(s). Thank you so much for this incredible program.

Sometimes I wish that I could go back in time just to see what the beginning was like and what the first humans look like

Awesome documentary 😍. Always a pleasure to learn about my ancestor's journey.

Excellent program. Id like to see more from the original peoples historical outlook.

This was absolutely excellent!! One of the best I have seen. Thank you!

Thanks for this. This is rarely covered

Watched ‘Ulzana’s Raid’ today…..a MUST watch imo.

I believe that much of the history is unknowable. The stories passed down through generations is so important. They teach lessons and contain knowledge that are timeless. It is so important for us to preserve what is here now, because we have destroyed so much of what we had before we understood the value of culture and history. The native American people and their culture must be preserved as a record of knowledge and history. They have no be a part of the reconstruction of their own archeological records. All people have to recognize mistakes of the past, and figure out how to get from the past into the future, and preserve what is most important along the way. We have so much to learn from those who have a different set of values than ourselves. I sympathize with the struggle of the Native American people. I want to see all people flourish in the present time. Every culture comes with a people, each of which must find their own path through time. We can't bring back the past. But we don't want to forget where we came from. It is important for the people who are of European decent to realize that we are not all knowing. And that we have destroyed so much that is valuable that we can never get back. All because we valued gold, and our way of thinking, more than the other people we came across. We have always exploited people for what we needed from them, and discarded them when we were through with them. We can't force people into our culture. But we also shouldn't banish them to a reservation and try to tell them how to live, or what to believe. They alone can make the transition. We should be there for them, but they must find their own way. And we need to learn from their culture. Because it is somewhere in the middle where we can all live in peace and respect.

Great work , love the info and images. well done.

How profound -" not in it for the artifacts, in it for the story." and it's a beautiful, fascinating story.

This is powerful!!!!!! Thank you

Thomas Jefferson, the 3rd president, is officially the first person to say that the only thing hat explains the radical differences in native American languages and cultures is that they were different people coming from different places at different times.

Outstanding. I was hoping you'd discuss the genome. Especially in the great lakes and Peru. There always has been people here from all over the world.

im very grateful for this

Thank you for this valuable history.

If the dating of the footprints from New Mexico are verified, native peoples existed in North America 22,000 to 24,000 years ago. This has huge implications.

I hope the next documentary about the origins of the Native Americans could give more information on how trade between different tribes in North and South America was a thing, if that in fact did happen. Also some more in depth information on which languages in the Americas have similarities of root words.

I truly find this very interesting and I’m hoping someday to find out if I’m a long lost relative somewhere along that line of peoples. It would be interesting to find out where my ancestors came from, but unable to afford the research. As far as that goes, even with all of our differences, we are still all one big family called HUMANS.

I really appreciate enjoy your time work and helpful information on this project and back to some of us came here and Blessing us all life road map thanks ❤

Thank you, extremely interesting.

What I find interesting is that when I was a small boy watching old American movies, the Natives normally greeted others with "Hao!" which sounded like "How!" Then, when I got older and studied Chinese I learned "Ni hao ma" meant "hello."

The Solutrean connection gives us another fascinating aspect to this complex history.

Random late-night thought: How amazing would it be if they found enough remains to actually trace the entire migration of all peoples? At any rate, thank you for putting this together. It was really interesting!

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Knowledge is power and understanding is wisdom. This is an educational video.

Excellent documentary. Thank you

Thank you for this beautiful video, very well done

We're explorers and now that we know most of the land were goin into space and deeper into the oceans.its in our blood to wonder and explore

This getting deep. I am from Greenwood Mississippi.. Abba thank you.. Im here

Excellent presentation.

Really love the Pueblos and Acoma , many ancient sites left in Colorado, Arizona , New Mexico , Mississippi , Ohio , Georgia , Wisconsin , Mexico ,Central America and South America...great show...human migration, land n sea , ...

The cultural similarities between siberian natives and northwestern american tribes is telling ...

Wow good work

there's 2 different haplogroup paths that came across to america.. the first settled the west coast of the americas such as the Hoopa, Wiyot & the other gave rise to tribes such a the Cherokee, Lakota, & Ho Chunk. it's kind of cool. I left Africa both times with each haplogroup. stayed in Korea and hunted the steep from france to kazakhstan to korea till settling in europe over 2000 years ago,

Indigenous Archeologists. Wonderfully made.

A very good introduction to a subject that needs much deeper understanding.

i truly like documentaries like these. gateway understanding ancient people we can apply nowadays by rrespect thru beliefs.

probably really peaceful and kind to each other

Very interesting and informative! Thank you!

I really enjoyed this documentary, thank you for sharing. This was very we'll produced and educational, better than many others I have watched .

Fascinating!

A great video, very informative.

I really enjoyed this video. Well done!

I really enjoy this documentary It's not every day that you get a documentary about and by indigenous people.

Love Native American culture & all cultures for that matter including Asian and African.

What an amazing time to have lived. 1300 Great Plains would have been an amazing and enriching life. Golden age. It is missed

A documentary of travelers of ancients tribes mother Earth' s children (lingustics) languages, lines , centuries that unites humanity as one. TIME SUN'S OF LIGHT. WHISPERING SONGS OF BIRDS OUR LULLABY OF LIFE. Loved this documentary ❤️

Well done. Very professional documentary.

Really very good and entertaining tale!

If you have never been to Mesa Verde in the 4 corners region, it is well worth your time. Fascinating cliff dwellers from the roughly 1200's if I remember correct.

I for one am so very grateful that Indigenous of all lands are still among us! The true people that are millennium in age and wisdom and true lovers of the earth. Much much respect shold be afforded to them all!

Thank you for doing this. It was wonderfully done. The loss of languages and knowledge is saddening yet this new technology to trace so much history is fascinating.

DNA is a beautiful thing to be able to provide learning of the origin of different peoples

Thank you wanted to learn about the original American people. Beautiful documentation, they are one with nature

As an archaeologist I can say that this is an excellent presentation. And, yes, I hope that more Native Americans will come into the field. However, tradition myth is still myth and must be recognized as such. Just as we see some Mideastern archaeologists trying to support their myths, we must recognize evidence that tells the truth of our past.

Great stuff guys love your focus and would be keen for you to have a look at indigenous Australians to see other parallels however some striking originating historical presidents

Such beautiful noble people! I wish this land could have remained theirs, though it still is and aways will be regardless of who calls America home.

WOW this a great story.

A very fascinating video. I like how through modern science and tradition what can be learned.