I never knew of the Scots connection to native Americans until recently. I am a Scottish girl who's clan (the Mackenzie clan) originates form the highlands. They were the most influential clan of the Scottish Highlands. I have no idea if my ancestors married into native American tribes because going by the spelling of my surname (mackenzie instead of McKenzie) suggests that my ancestors did not emigrate out of Scotland.. Highland clans who emigrated removed the a from the beginning of their surnames. Macdonald immigrants became Mcdonald.. Mackenzie became McKenzie..mackenna became mckenna and so on and so fourth. I'd love to know my ancestry. I know I am definitely Irish as my clan was started by Irish settlers by the name of Fitzgerald. Native Americans are such attractive people. I am Scottish yet I was obsessed with pocohontos and anything tribal growing up. My daughters have about 2 dream catchers each in their rooms lol
@@ScotlandHistoryTours I am from the Mackenzie clan that features in outlander. My dad's side of the family were obviously strong mackenzies as my dads name is Roderick and roderick is the same name of the mackenzie clan member who did work on leod Castle which is the mackenzie clan seat lol I'd love to do a my heritage test x
First comment. Yes!!! Well done Brucie for telling us this story. My great grand-father, James McLanachan Grant, was picking cotton in the fields of Birmingham, Alabama in 1917, planning to bring his family to the USA, when he decided to return to Scotland and volunteer to serve in the Great War. He died in the hills outside of Jerusalem as a private in the Cameronians. Whenever we visited Edinburgh Castle we would go up to the wee chapel and read his name in one of those big death-registers. Grand or humble, every family has a story from that war.
@@ScotlandHistoryTours His youngest daughter, conceived between returning to Scotland and shipping-out, never meeting him, was my wonderful Granny. Imagine Mrs Doubtfire as the head-honcho of the West Ayrshire Womens' Rural Institute. She could whip-up a boss-level mince 'n tatties with a slab of stewing-steak thrown-in on Sundays and, spookily, always got a good prizes at her local (Dundonald) Highland Games tombolas.
@@Original50 well told,and reminds us to be humbly kind to each other, no matter race,religion or circumstance. Our shared historical experiences can bind us together.💙
Great tribute. I am fascinated by the Scottish immigrants, regularly Highlanders, who commonly settled with Native American tribes here in the U.S. My theory is that they had a similar enough tribal mentality, similarly courageous in battle, and the Natives may have been the only ones willing to share space with poor immigrants / escaped European slaves. I know the Natives often gave refuge to escaped African slaves. If you know of any more stories along this topic I would be excited to hear them. I have a particularly close tie to Native Americans and Scots if you could not tell from my name. Another great video. Thanks!
I agree. My mother's family, Rayburn's of East Tennessee are also a blend with Cherokee. Sadly, we don't know much about that side of the family aside from family legends.
The Metis in Canada are a native and Scottish and french blend and are considered a first nations here. My brother in law was Metis and Ojbewa and my sister traced his ancestry back.
The children of Scots and Cherokee, Muskogee, and other Native peoples were referred to as the "blessed blend" because they seemed to inherit the best attributes of both Gaelic and Native sides. They were described as strikingly handsome/beautiful, highly intelligent, and unusually talented, and many of the greatest leaders, such as Principal Chief Alexander MacIntosh of the Muskogee and Principal John Ross of the Cherokee were from this Gaelic/Native blend. If you read the names on the roles of many Southeastern tribes, it's like reading a roll call of Scottish clans.
Hello, I am a mixed blood, mostly Cree from Moose Factory, Ontario, Canada. I was wondering if you have any information or interest in the name Louttit, my paternal family surname which I know originates from Orkney. I know it's probably a case of "a needle in a haystack ". Anyway I love this video, and I love my Scottish roots, I just don't have much information to go on. Cheers!
Absolutely fascinating, I had no idea that our First Nations people had been shipped off to the UK, thanks for letting everyone know, and yes, I’m sharing 😊
The timing on this video couldn't be more perfect for me. I've just completed reading White People, Indians and Highlanders: Tribal Peoples and Colonial Encounters in Scotland and America authored by Colin G. Calloway. Great read which explores several interwined stories and experiences of Native Americans and Highlanders (and other Scots as well). Thank you for this video sir.
Scotland 🏴 is very close to the hearts ♥️ of natives in lac la ronge Saskatchewan canada 🇨🇦. The Robertson trading post and Hudson Bay trading posts still exist there. Many have Scotland relates. Grandma or grandpa. Even the Prince Albert park has the cabin of Grey Owl the English man who settled as a native.
Thank you Bruce for this special story... it is a reminder that while mankind continues the bitter struggle for exclusivity of one sort or another, in Creator's eyes, we are all related. Mitakuye Oyasin.
My heart is with you friend, One day I hope we can escape that struggle. I'm proud to share this world with you and all of our relations. Wishing you and yours all the best!
I was totally delighted recently to discover that I was related to a Mountain Man and thru him, because he married a Native American, I am now connected to Native Americans...like many Scots.
Another comment on Scots impact in US history. My home town is Tulsa, Oklahoma. Oklahoma is the headquarters of 39 Native American tribes. Every summer Tulsa hosts Scottish highland games. They are attended by Native Americans with Scottish heritage as well as locals with Scottish ancestry. This is because Scotsmen (and women) were key parts of the exploration and settlement of the old west. They married Native Americans and became part of their tribes. I don't know more details about their specific involvement in old west historical events, but I think this part of Scottish and US history should be told.
There was plenty of Scottish immigrants to the U.S. and Canada that married Native Americans. I am mostly of Scottish, Irish and English ancestry but through research I’ve found that I have Cherokee,Choctaw,Creek and Crow Native American ancestry too. There was many Native Americans when they were forced to use European names many used Scottish names. There’s quite a few Native Americans with the name Macintosh.
True my ancestry shows Captain John Stewart Marrying a mixed woman of Native American Indian and Negro as it states. Apparently Stewart was well received by the natives.
I'm of Scottish descent by McDonald. Graham of Montrose and Wallace on my mom's paternal line. On her maternal line there is Cunningham, and the first cousin of Tecumseh, a Shawnee chief. She was my 5th gr grandmother. Yes,I'm American but proud of my heritage.❤
My step father, now an elder, actually did a few trips to Scotland with First Nations university students and staff of Mètis background. We are in saskatchewan, the province next to manitoba. There is a lot of history between the 2 cultures because of the fur trade. We both enjoyed seeing this video as an introduction to your channel. Can't wait to view more 😊
I always look out for commonwealth war graves, and the graves of Polish and American war dead when I find myself in a graveyard. So many young lives lost in defence of those not yet born.😥
We are all men, and somehow none seem to be where they should be. Maybe, just maybe where you are born, the colour of your skin, or the language on your tong matter not. It is what is in your heart, it is what you protect and hold dear that makes you a Scotsman. Love you videos from South Africa.
Brilliant video. So sad that this man was taken from his home to die in Scotland. I am from Stirling and I didn't know this story, thanks for giving Nona a voice.
You should do a video on a man called Peter Williamson (Indian Peter) not really a native american though. But a very interesting story I'm sure we would all love to hear you're take on.
In the States the go-to term is general Native American, although in the last two decades the term 'Amerind' has gained hold, because it's short for American Indigenous, the people who say the 'ind' means Indian are wrong), and because complicated geopolitical realities of some of our Arctic peoples who used to migrate between Russia & Alaska seasonally before the borders were closed, and it also respects the mixed heritage status of groups like the Boricua Taino and Lumbee. It also reflects the fact that several of our indigenous peoples are displaced from their historical homelands and therefore technically not 'native' to their current Reservation, such as those displaced by the Trail of Tears or the various First Nations refugee groups that arrived when Canada began further expansion into their territories in the 1890's.
thank you for another excellent presentation of Scotland's History. I wish I had known of this when I was at Stirling Castle sometime in 1973. however, the tour bus had other places to go and I didn't want to miss my ride. again, thank you for another job well done.
About one in every six Canadian's served in WW1 but initially the Canadian military wouldn't accept non whites. By 1915 the casualties changed that. First Nations people served in many units within the Canadian military. More than six thousand served, many with distinction. Although treated as equals mostly while serving. Once they returned to Canada they were denied benefits that other ex military received. Nice that one of the First Nations people who made the ultimate sacrifice is remembered.
Excellent as always Sir! Thank you. Just one historical point; Canada 🇨🇦 became a nation on July 1st 1867. We got our own constitution from the UK 🇬🇧 in 1982. And the Canadian flag 🇨🇦 we were allowed to fly it in 1967. Prior to that we flew the Union Jack 🇬🇧 or Red Ensign. Several WW2 vets from my Regiment insisted on being buried under the Union Jack 🇬🇧 as that was the flag they fought under. …and you thought Scotland 🏴 had some interesting 🤔 history, eh? 🤣 Cheers!
@@ScotlandHistoryTours Nothing but love back to you. We Canadians get teased by our Caribbean Friends all time. They like to point out that they may be younger "official" countries than Canada, but they have had their Constitutions longer than we did. It's all good fun over a drink and sharing our cultures. Cheers!
My great great great gran was Native American and I’m from Glasgow still strong features of the natives in my family on my mother’s side also there’s a lot spiritual people in my family and I believe that’s where we get it from lol 😂 we just know and feel things lol
Interesting ❤️ I know a good Scottish psychic medium who was a amazing at her job and one of her spirit guides was a native American. I wonder if those are her ancestors xx
In the 1970s I did my Gwent Police Cadet training with a guy named Frank Jackas (Pronouned Yackas) he was a black skinned Athletic sort of bloke of American descent. He was immensely popular and a first class rugby player, in 1975 he would have been about 18yrs. I often wondered what happened to him. Do you think he could have been a relative of a lumberjack, he lived in digs in Cwmbran when I knew him.
My grandmother, who was Italian for many places in Italy, came to Canada and her husband who is Norwegian came to Canada. And then he went off to work somewhere else and got killed by Native Americans. There’s so much history. It’s so wonderful to just as sad as history is, it’s great to compare notes thank you.
Was he a trapper? What was work for him? At the time many “man camps” targeted women and children for their “fun” as they would call it, he may have been mixed up in that mess being a worker not saying he took part but most indigenous people didn’t kill without purpose and method as it reflected on their soul.
@@stephennelson4964 its a mixed bag many tribes had their own reasons Some better than others but the ancestors could be just as brutal without reason This isn't to say you or wrong or anything close to that but to give you a little more insight of this topic I'm mixed cree and have done alot of research about my ancestors and honestly am still learning But there is one story you reminded me of My ancestors the cree and the black foot would fight eachother alot And in this story the 2 groups were going to have a battle but the cree instead of going to fight went to the Blackfoot camp and waited for them to leave for battle and once they did they raided the camp killing women and children. There are more angles to the story of course but my point is that we Too were also capable of hatred and wraith Also from the fact he said grandfather and grandmother makes me wonder how long ago that actually happened and it could of been more recent than what we are thinking Because I am thinking about 1900s to the 1800s
Wonderful story, Bruce, and thank you. Canada became independent in1867. The 1982 date is when the constitution was repatriated as a law of the Canadian rather than the British parliament. It's a detail.
I'll give you an interesting character for when you're running out of material (that will be the day eh). William Drummond Stewart. Responsible for some of the earliest paintings of the US Midwest and his son was an early VC recipient. My wife's grandfather, a French voyageur in the employ of Stewart, is one of the faces in an watercolor in the castle. Sir William's best friend and companion, Antoine Clement is now said to have been his romantic companion. Would be interesting to see if he's buried over there. His father was I believe a French voyageur and his mother an American Indian. If you search Antoine Clement fur trade you'll see the portraits Alfred Jacob Miller. And good video.
Scots in North America and first nation/native Americans (depending on which side of the US/Canadian border you are on) often got along quite well unless their best interests clashed. The cultures had more in common than most realize. Some of those Scots eventually integrated with the tribes, but what is really amazing is how many current Americans and Canadians are part first nation/native American in some areas. This is generally regarded as something to take pride in. I am American, but know a Canadian lady, whose brother is a Tribal Chief and a former co-worker in the US, who attributes his hunting prowess to his native American side to cite two examples and I know others.
You might be interested in a book by James Hunter Scottish Highlanders, Indian Peoples: Thirty Generations of a Montana Family It's about a Scot named MacDonald who set up a Hudson Bay trading post in northwest Montana, and married an indigenous woman from the Salish or Kootenai tribe (I can't remember which). His descendents are still highly respected eiilders on the Flathead Reservation.
Number 37 on the commemorative stone is my namesake. We honour our fellow North American. Canada existed from 1867, British North America Act - and Glaswegian John A. MacDonald was its very first Prime Minister!
I actually had a through to make a video going round memorials to Scottish Canadian Prime ministers Maybe do it yet. Don't worry I'm just poking the bear with the 1982 thing... or is it a moose... or a beaver?
@@ScotlandHistoryTours It is not advisable to poke beavers in Canada, because the "woke" Family Courts there will r@pe men in respect of custody and child support matters. Incidentally, the Trudeau-inspired 1982 "Charter" was not even in any elected MP's manifesto, or ratified nationally afterwards. Such is how "democracy" has bloomed under francophone and left-wing Canadian Prime Ministers. Which is why Canada is in such a mess.
@@ScotlandHistoryTours ignore him. Probably just a western separatist, American wannabe. Also don't get to cosy with Macdonald, he was a nasty racist and founder of the native residential schools designed to beat the Indian out of the kids. Look up the Reconciliation documents before touching that with a 10 foot pole.
I was told by one professor that black, caribian slaves built Granton on Spey near aviemore... But I don’t believe it because no other history books in Scottish history say it!🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴 Whaslike us! 🏴
Hmmm, interesting. I have no facts. History books often eliminate facts that don't suit their narrative, though I'd have thought there would have been a lot of cheap Highland labour. As I say I don't have the info
@@douglasherron7534 I knew you were joking bud , that's why some of the best comedians in America are Canadians, we laugh at ourselves! A little dry British humor has seeped into us as well!
I’m a bit Scott’s and I heard Irish. It shows up on my genealogy a wee bit. I have the temperament and so did my aunt uncles Irish. And which I am also and many other things. I love to listen to what’s going on but not in the government when I do listen the government I like the wild ones, the wild West Clair daily and Mick Wallace.
Another nice video Sir, I was wondering if you had a video on Bishop Robert Wishart, I was always of the opinion that his life would have made every bit as entertaining a movie as any other Hollywood offering.
Hi Bruce another cracking story. I was thinking that Nonah has surviving descendants that even know he is on a memorial in Scotland. The Attawapiskat first nation band office might be interested in the story as it follows on the theme of truth and reconciliation of first nations peoples here in Canada.
There are MANY tales to be told abt our Scottish ancestors in America. A TERRIFIC one is about the Scottish Trader Bowles, and his family. The Scots made America. And the Scottish Indian traders are so important and unknown. They are an integral part of our Ancestry. And likely the reason many of us lived, a perspective important during the Trail of Tears. When someone says they are an Indian princess, you can bet they are.
Thank you for this Bruce. I love all your content. Before covid I was spending my days off work and holidays visiting anywhere I could camp or get photos of our beautiful country. Stirling and Perth are high on the list. of course Stirling castle and the Wallace monument were on the list. You have just added that grave yard and pushed Stirling higher up the list so I can show respect to that young native American. My usual hangouts are Glencoe and Loch lomond so your videos of these areas are of greater interest. I camp on the site of Glencoe massacre on the exact date and time two year ago. I will tell you it was eerie . I told my mum I was there at the time of the massacre and Im sure she blames me for it now.
Constitution was passed and approved we became wholly independent 1867 we cease to be a colony in some technical terms but we were still under the crown in someway *why we have a governor General
This is so strange Bruce, just spent a lot of the day listening to the story of the Modoc war and the battles of Sashone tribes (probably butchered that spelling) after reviewing the latest from the middle East, then I see a notification you have anew vid happy days and, and your on the same buzz. Depressing how good these "civilised" nations are at clearing people off land they want. Sorry B enough waffle great vid I really enjoyed it thanking you
@@ScotlandHistoryTours lol.... indeed... however..not all of us Canadians look at her as our Queen...just an old rich old bag ...the "Royal" family can stay in there shitte hole country haha
Im american. I have scotish ancestors. My mom said he have native american in us but im not sure. Suppouse we may since scots and native americans got together alot
This kind of associates itself with a letter I sent on Patreon. Back as early as 1830 Natives of this country Canada (not their name for it) were treated as expendable cheap labour. They were used and abused for several generations and may I respectfully point out, many of the abusers were Scots.
Maybe the reason was that the local British forestry workers had already been sent to fight in the trenches, so they needed a new supply of men strong enough to fell the trees that were ready and waiting. At the start of the war they had no idea that it would go on for so long.
Did you just try to insinuate that Holyrood House is across from Stirling Castle? Oh no, Church of the Holy Rood. Jeeez, can you come up with some new names, medieval Catholics?! :P
