Fanny Kelly Meets Mary Boyeau, Another Sioux Captive from the 1862 Minnesota Massacre (ep. 12) 

I appreciate that we get to hear accounts that expalin the reality that Native Americans were not enlightened, serene people. I spent most of my life believing that the Native Americans were very noble. I felt that the settlers were selfish and the U.S. government was stadistic. This woman's story and other people's accounts provide a glimpse into why there was fear, disgust and hatred towards Native Americans. It was complicated. For those who feel that the evil acts that the Native Americans were justified, you should consider this, the Native American tribes were pillaging, enslaving and harming eachother long before the European invasion. Ironically, it was just that the Europeans had the technology and orgaiization to pull off a full blown genocide in the way that some (not all) the Native Americans only dreamed of. Native Americans have been brutilizing eachother for centuries. The Aztecs as well as the Inca would enslave, brutilize, plunder and perform human sacrifices with the smaller, less powerful neaby tribes.

I get such a kick out of your unpretentious delivery of these stories. The stories are fascinating and I find myself addicted to them. And each time I hear you narrate a story I think "what an honest, down to earth, knowledgeable person". Thank you. You are truly unique.

So much for the image of the noble savage, there were brutes among them just like any other group.

I give greater credence to Fanny Kelly's story than the speculations of some half witted intellectual interested in making an academic name for himself.

What a descriptive writer and well read. I'm enjoying

Oh my goodness, it’s 3.38am here and I’m transfixed by this story! Thank you 🙏🏼

The eloquence of the writer is amazing, especially when compared to the ability of we moderns in conveying thoughts and recollections.

Thank you for sharing this story, a different version of the trail of tears.

One will never know what we are capable of until we are that particular situation. We have more strength we think .

Have you ever read the story of the “Fool Soldiers”? Largely forgotten, It’s one of the most incredible, and selfless, acts in American history, and was accomplished by young Dakotas. My wife’s ancestor, a Dakota chief (The Buck) helped the group by giving them horses, food, and the only cart in that part of South Dakota. The captives were taken by the Santee, in ‘62. Julia Wright, and Emma Duley were two.

Once again, Excellent Content and Great Narrative skills. Excellent

Here's the real history that should be taught in our public school system.

As always a great story thanks,

Please change the name to Worthy History! Don't disparage this channel its too excellent!

Really interesting to hear , thanks for sharing your information 👍

This depresses me to no end .... Being fr Texas we grew up hearing these horror stories My Granmom never got over some other horrible incedents related to Her by Her parents

To hear of the Indian side of the invasion and conquest of North America, read the letter of Silas Soule, who witnessed the Sand Creek Massacre in eastern Colorado. While Soule directed his men not to fire on the peaceful camp of Chief Black Kettle, other soldiers not under his command scalped and murdered the women, children and elderly Cheyenne and Arapaho, later gleefully parading their scalps and other bloody body parts through the streets of Denver in front of cheering crowds. Thank you for this history of Mary that we should also not forget.

This has been happening since the beginning of time since the fall in the garden, man's inhumanity two man. Nothing new under the Sun

I have a friend who I did her Ancestry for her ....she had a GGG Grandmother who as a child was kidnappped by some Indians , her Father and brother were killed and her mother and another sister were burned alive , she had two other brothers who one was visiting their Gra ndfather and another brother who had been kidnapped two years earlier...this young Girl was ,marched to Chilicothie Ohio from Tenn ..She was held for 4 yrs and was able to escape and was found by a trapper and his wife , they helped get her back to Tenn and got her reunited with her brothers , and Grandfather ,,she married a minister and had three children , but she suffered nightmares the rest of her life , an adult size cradle was made for her to calm her ..

Wow. How would any of us have reacted to these traumatic events.

I have been listening to many of the stories shared on this youtube channel and my oh my! As a South-African, I applaud these AMAZING, STRONG and BRAVE PIONEERS. All of these people, but especially the women and children that lived through hell by being taken captive by Native Americans. THIS is the America we love and come to believe is our world leader, built on the backbone of all these pioneers. May God Bless you all and may God forever smile upon the women and children who suffered at the hands of all these cruel people during these times.

You are doing such a superb job with all your videos! I am a historian with 5 fields of emphasis and fully concur with your histories and efforts.

I have read Fanny Kelly's book...fascinating!

What a fascinating and useful account of how to deal with locusts!!!

I just found your channel and glad I did! I subscribed too.😊

I love your unworthy history!

If Fanny Kelly made the stories up then why have so many people believed them? Was she rescued? If not, how did her stories get written at all? Please, what year was she supposedly captured? How long was she held captive?

Another excellent video..

Glad I found the channel. Subscribed.

A lot of records were burned down. How dare they say Mary didn't exist.

Thanks!

Maybe research Mary Boyeau in New York where her family lived before Minnesota

These narratives so imperative, so necessary. Without your work the lives of these remarkable ppl, the primal endurance required of plaines life now overcome. Would you have anything what was done when tornados dropped down? Must have been horrible.

Spirit Lake is in Iowa. It's on the broader. Inkapaduda (Lakota Warrior) was involved in the mascara at Okaboji , near Spirit Lake.

The truth was they all was with tribes, and they lied and used trickery on people even back then. Many stories of their own elders stories tells you that. ! And to current . There's real stories still hidden from the public.

Mom will be 100 in 3 years, up until her moving to a nursing home when she was no longer able to care for herself a few years ago, was deadly afraid of Indians. She grew up on deeded land on the Sioux Indian Reservation in North Dakota. Dad got the home place when his dad passed away, our farm was about 18 miles North of the Reservation boundary but mom's experience with the Indians even in the 20's and 30's was enough to bring on that fear. Now that she is living in the nursing home with a few elderly squaws she has come to be friends with them, however she still distrusts them and has caught them in her room searching her belongings for good things. Our town is but 10 miles from the reservation and when I began my police career in it, I dealt with plenty of the Sioux in the early 1970'S, then took a job South of here where I worked in the only town, on the only highway that connects the 2 large reservations in South Dakota. Our jail was often filled with Natives who, while passing through picked up some wine while "going to see my cousin at Pine Ridge," or "Going to see my Cousin in Cheyenne River." I took a job at a larger department North of there and moved on, but it was enlightening into the life of the old Indians on the reservations.

Ty for sharing

I wish the episodes were in proper order. I need episode 4 and 5, but can't find them in the mass of numerous different episodes and other stories.

I find it interesting that Fanny Kelly, or Mary, whichever, was doing the reading to the natives. This person who also learned the native language.

Human beings are not "human"...

Russell Brown, what would you want em to do ? It was their land, greet you with open arms ?

There is no Spirit Lake, MN but one just across the border in Iowa. Perhaps the maps have been redrawn since the 19th Century...?

I remember reading a description of the Sioux Indians by Lewis and Clark stating how hideous the Sioux Indians were. How they were one of the worst tribes that they encountered on their quest across America!!!

I now understand the hatred of the white settlers towards the Sioux the killing of the children and the treatment of the very young lady was horrendous.

Dude.... Right on..... I like Minnesota history.......

I think thefilm "the missing" was quite informative.

what happened to her child Mary?

This is surprising to me. The sick and graphic experience is mind sicking. I makes my stomach sick and burns imagine thats ill..

My great great grandmother was scalped and her teets were cut off. She lived to be 105 years old. She was known all throughout the County as the Teetless wonder. She had 13 children and the midwives and a black servant fed the babies.

I will join your paid membership, I am curious to know if this is a personal endeavor ? If put together by a company ??

Well done, as always. Thank you thank you.

Thanks for another amazing video! I thought the story about the second woman captive sounded a little fishy…Why havent she seen her before? I don’t know

Wow!

If anyone knows of the Smith family Willis Verona and Bonita from Minnesota looking for information. Would be greatly appreciated.

Tremendous

They received the title of savage and I was deceived that they were nobalsavages however they did get their just deserve

The corroborating evidence tells me that Fanny was telling the truth about meeting Mary.

They should be thankful they are on the reservation...

Speculation is not proof that she made it up. She did write the story after the fact so names and places may not be exact.

Daryl the other option is she could have made up a lot of what she has said. I was about to how this lady has lived 14 years with the Indians and still thought like a white woman. Who knows now

Horrible just horrible...yes abuse and tortured ....

People are just the same. We can do good or do bad. Choose to be good. I think she is Mary. She talks about the clothing and the splitting sash. I think the other woman grew jealous. I think she had mixed feelings about the chief. A part of her cared about him, but a part of her didnt.

It’s almost as if they weren’t actual people but primitive vessels for demonic entities.

🙏🏻

Yay!

In regards to the dingbats thesis. It’s POSSIBLE she’s a figment of her own imagination. It’s POSSIBLE… you get the idea.😊

Ms. Jordan Redinger is a good example of someone submitting a poorly-researched thesis on a rarely discussed topic to gain attention through pseudo controversary. Her bogus theory is comical.

Lewis and Clark did not like most Indians they encountered. Mainly they just liked the Mandans.

I find this information is questionable.

Ya see you just can’t wander into someone else’s Country throwing around agent Orange nay palm etc,shooting up the locals because they will turn savage, then you’ll get your ass kicked ?

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Fanny Kelly did NOT make up Boyeau. Why is it always so important for some to change history. I've read that story as a witness to the white woman and her baby massacred beside a fire place. Such evil exist, in plenty, within low IQ and fundamentalistic tribes, as we know.

Intéressant documentaire vu d'outre Atlantique depuis le 'deep south west of France'. Les autochtones d'avant l'invasion anglo-saxonne vivaient comme tous les humains qui ont fait l'Histoire du monde : toujours en rivalité, guerres de groupe, bref toujours cette aspiration au pouvoir de domination du voisin. C'est malheureusement dans la nature de l'Homme. Les historiens ont voulu en faire des hommes fiers, humbles et droits, etc... Ce qui est aussi le cas dans la lutte et le combat, une certaine noblesse. Cela dit, l'invasion anglo-saxonne était elle justifiée ? Les américains d'aujourd'hui vous diront que oui !! Perso, comme toute invasion en pays lointain je dirai que non, et Dieu sait si les pays européens ne se sont pas gênés notamment en Afrique et Amérique du Sud. C'est l'Histoire avec ses découvertes et... ses drames.

So much for peaceful

Omg....those poor captives. They saw first hand how savage the Indians were. So, the "poor Indians" scenario is hog wash. The only way to get the Indians to concede was to get them all drunk

I thought all the Indians were like in dances with wolves? Lol

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I wonder if people watching these videos understand that the Native peoples did not invent scalping. They learned it from the Europeans, who'd been scalping their enemies for centuries.

Ah the noble savage

Anyone interested in history such as this should read Empire of the Summer Moon. The story of the Parkers and the Commanches.

Indians are not monsters

THANK GOD these savages were conquered.

the voice of the narrator sounds very condescending like he is reading to kindergartners and annoying. Needs lessons on how to read aloud.

It was a different time. My great great grandmother, Lucy Otherday, a loyal Mdewakanton and CHRISTIAN helped to rescue white settlers and missionaries during the Dakota war of 1862. So no, not all of them were bad. There were a lot of both good Dakota and Lakota and bad Lakota and Dakota. Maybe if Fanny Kelly with her family had not come to Turtle Island and stole land from my ancestors she wouldn't have been captured and held prisoner.

Didn't happen, a Disney play

Such absolute BS!

I am an Indigenous American. As the White man came to the Americas, they claimed land as if no one lived on it. Then there was forced removal including murder. Now do you understand why we do what we do?

Just crappola to sell books and make money

You definitely don't have the facts at all. They were not native Americans, and I repeat were not native Americans. Liz Warren must be related to them. It was Kelly who had/ has the Native American heritage along with other ethnic back grounds. One could say, her leaf's branched out all over different ethnics. Kelly never had to steal anyone else's identity. Look it up, it's Biblical.. And they know it....... Not Sorry!!!!!!!!

I don’t agree with the individuals theory! I will rely upon the words of the woman who lived and wrote about her experiences. To think that she endured so many tragedies that she somehow couldn’t handle rape, I find that he is more likely ignorant than she was weak. Some people who have the audacity to say this to gain some notoriety off of someone’s misery is nothing less than PATHETIC!

you have to understand that the indians were pissed they had everything taken from them their whole way of life as they knew it, maybe if we would have learned their ways and lived like them our lives would have been better no politicians no government control.

All the bleeding hearts that are in support of these savages only need to watch these true firsthand accounts to understand why these savages were annihilated. I have no remorse for these animals.