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Boston Celtics guard and NBA All-Star Kyrie Irving gives an emotional speech at his Standing Rock Sioux naming ceremony on Aug. 23, 2018. The former Cleveland Cavaliers and Duke Blue Devils player -- whose mother, Elizabeth Larson, was a descendant of the Standing Rock Sioux but was adopted out as a small child -- was given the Lakota name Little Mountain at the ceremony, which took place in Cannon Ball, North Dakota.
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@Voqurz 2 года назад

As a Native American person who I am proud to be, I am appreciated to see Kyrie visit in Standing Rock it is such an honor! I got to visit him and I am very honored!

@CycleCruza 6 лет назад

God bless native Americans, the original Americans.

@chicagoblackhawks9840 4 года назад

Love the Indian-Americans

@matthewj23 3 года назад

Except Kyrie is in all reality 99.9999% Black.

@m_w501 3 года назад

@@matthewj23 Yeah. Dude is wild.

@stevonwhite8933 3 года назад

@@matthewj23 his mother is half Sioux...

@matthewj23 3 года назад

@@stevonwhite8933 I HIGHLY HIGHLY doubt it!

@412yinzr 6 лет назад

I had no clue Kyrie was native, that’s dope.

@arealgoodguy 6 лет назад

A lot of us are and we don't know it. Most of our history was deleted.

@universalcreativeconcuisne408 6 лет назад

Alot people who call them selfs black are native

@FlyTyBlizzy 6 лет назад

@@universalcreativeconcuisne408 we are the real Jews #facts

@universalcreativeconcuisne408 6 лет назад

@@FlyTyBlizzy you giving out too much info they ain't ready for all that 😂

@ajman9880 6 лет назад

calling someone native is so retarded :D only in america :D

@lafartball2286 6 лет назад

From flat earth to lil mountain top. Kyrie is elevating

@ricothomas381 6 лет назад

still flat earth don't get it twisted

@N8veJay 3 года назад

@@ricothomas381 lil mountain top 🏔

@boxtalk2254 Год назад

@@ricothomas381 more like a dome but defiantly not the earth they tell us they love in

@danecalloway 6 лет назад

Osiyo! I'm proud of you brother! I can't wait to see millions more of our people becoming cognizant of who they truly are! Wado!

@blakjak38 6 лет назад

So you mean because this individual has one Native American parent, then all African Americans are Native Americans?... Blake Griffin has one white parent, so I guess all black Americans are also white. According to your logic.

@jammydodger9561 6 лет назад

@@blakjak38 pick up a book and research or go back 2 sleep...ok

@SAGE0FTHEEAST 6 лет назад

Agent calloway in full effect!! Bro the real Moors already exposed your fake ass!

@hunnidkray534 6 лет назад

Love ya channel found out I'm half Cherokee on my father side. Because I watched ya video. I asked my family members about my heritage. Thank you. Btw the comment section is full of lost ones

@SAGE0FTHEEAST 6 лет назад

@@hunnidkray534-so your father is cherokee? That's the only way you're half Cherokee... don't say other people are lost when you yourself don't truly understand.

@Tylormaxie 6 месяцев назад

Made me cry, I am from the Sioux tribe and I am black feels great to see someone like me be so welcomed by the community.

@thesixthman3176 6 лет назад

Dakota NATION STAND UP SIOUX ALL THE WAYYY BABBBYYYY

@yutoob6181 6 лет назад

Little Mountain is an awesome name

@netsarebetter1067 6 лет назад

My new nickname is now officially Kyrie "Uncle Drew Little Mountain" Irving.

@jaredalexander4925 6 лет назад

Welcome. Your are one of the likehearted

@auzzipride2502 6 лет назад

Chur bol keep on keepin on

@josephredhorse9220 6 лет назад

Mitakuye oyasin. We are all related my brother ( misun)

@tyresehemara7996 5 лет назад

@@auzzipride2502 Churr Ghee u Maori????

@mzladytroublez 5 лет назад

Thats so awesome. His mothers family. A few of us native americans grew up had kids that are mixed. Im glad he found where he came from.

@davidmarkel4672 6 лет назад

Yo I'm from North Dakota and even though I'm not native, I've learned a lot about the history of the natives of this land and I'm really glad to see this.

@amayasky7694 6 лет назад

David Markel you look like a fboi from Nd lmaoo they all look the same to me.

@frozone2589 4 года назад

I was at the event

@frozone2589 4 года назад

He gave me free shoes

@jordan12118 6 лет назад

By the beginning of the season Kyrie gon have that Dr.J Afro

@jonbrodes1290 6 лет назад

kyrie needs to a fade before the season! want a duke and bruce lee cw and hopefully the rumored captain crunch!

@hunnidkray534 6 лет назад

Shit he might Rickey William's and retire. His basketball energy is not there check his body language. It scream deception and being tired

@Jarzula 6 лет назад

Fuck that, grow it out and braid it up! Tradish style.

@PRETTY_RICKY33 5 лет назад

Jon Brodes nah a fade ass new year new hairstyle new way of taking care of his body new him

@PeterNothof 6 лет назад

I like the direction sports media is going in. Other than the LeBron obsessive gossip, can be really educational and diverse. 👍

@Axel-ye8tt 6 лет назад

Trey Vert so did many athletes that doesn’t make Lebron more special he did a good thing but don’t shove down our throats

@ChristmasCrybaby 6 лет назад

@@Axel-ye8tt name one other athlete that has opened up a school like that. Not just put money in an account for someone else to build it and then that athlete just shoot out never to be seen, i mean put down your own money help with blue prints, and mapping out what to teach and to what grades, finding teachers and a principal, i mean down to the last details, what athlete did that?

@ChristmasCrybaby 6 лет назад

Peter Nothof media, especially ESPN is way worse with MJ and Kobe than they are LeBron. DNT act like Bron is just the constant main story cause he's not, he's just the most polarizing athlete.

@PeterNothof 6 лет назад

First take and Undisputed talk about LeBron every day lol. "First take reacts to LeBron saying he wishes Kyrie the best." Stuff like that is what I mean. Not the actual stories.

@lakesia7827 6 лет назад

🛑

@IcyBandicoot 6 лет назад

A brother who went and traced his genealogy to find his culture. Praise to the most high.

@blakjak38 6 лет назад

His mother was Sioux. She died when he was 4 years old.

@kristianyaka_nation3137 6 лет назад

@@blakjak38 she was adopted by a Sioux family, not blood related.

@shannonlink7738 6 лет назад

@@kristianyaka_nation3137 she was adopted out not in

@katarina1292 5 лет назад

@@kristianyaka_nation3137 No, she was half Sioux, half black american

@setira8081 Год назад

@@katarina1292 there’s no such thing as black most black Americans are native Americans we got forced to call ourselves black and colored

@tysonfranksfranks8365 6 лет назад

Y are there people saying that the Africans were here first calling them selfs Indians and mocking my culture Kyrie is Lakota

@yourightfosho8879 6 лет назад

Tyson Franks Franks facts

@keenanfinley738 6 лет назад

1:35 yo that's my grandma Charlotte!!! I'm related too Kyrie!

@depressedfalconsfan2338 3 года назад

Wait how you not know that you related to kyrie 🤨

@depressedfalconsfan2338 3 года назад

I would be bragging every 2 seconds ngl

@mnpo8987 3 года назад

@@depressedfalconsfan2338 the foster system

@sidneyboddie69 6 лет назад

proud of u kyrie

@asianfireflie 6 лет назад

he looks happy

@vodavoom 6 лет назад

So Kyrie roots is of the original Americans (Natives) wow....

@ceemoegreen 6 лет назад

gaming with dj well they say the first settlers of turtle island (America) migrated from parts of Asia and Australia, and Kyrie pops played in Australia and maybe that’s where he met his mom????? I’m not sure

@vodavoom 6 лет назад

Cornelius Stokes ok ok, thanks..

@rouskeycarpel1436 6 лет назад

Through his mom(God rest her soul)

@Briguy702 6 лет назад

Black americans in general are of the original Americans.

@JacobSmith-xx4st 6 лет назад

Cornelius Stokes we did not come from asia or Australia

@brainxtc2171 6 лет назад

Very cool. Always nice finding your roots.

@user-ub8uc8gq7r 6 лет назад

I truly understand what he’s feeling. A few days ago, my dad FINALLY introduced me to his Hawaiian side of the family. Never knew my dads side my whole life. It was crazy hearing them speak the Hawaiian native language to me.

@MrSodaBelly 2 года назад

Y’all are going instinct

@mightylaser0000 11 месяцев назад

@@MrSodaBellywtf

@Chief_Tfo 6 лет назад

Kyrie is definately one of my all time favorite basketball stars. Especially considering I'm of the same native bloodline as kyrie. (The Sioux) It might be a small amount but I still have it in me. Maybe I'm just biased... but still.

@lanecrazywolf9614 6 лет назад

Couldnt be more proud of him and his sister. Time to count coup on that court.

@atlanteantreyindian2750 3 года назад

Black Aboriginal Americans Indians love

@lanecrazywolf9614 3 года назад

@@atlanteantreyindian2750 Mitakuye Oyasin!

@jstiles1659 6 лет назад

Uncle Drew I'm ready for you this season, Boston strong

@JenJHayden 6 лет назад

Jay Lee Mountian Drew. Mountain. Drew.

@FasterToTheEnd 6 лет назад

I love having this man on the Celtics. I know there's a chance he might leave, but man, I am endlessly grateful he's been in green for us, no matter how long the time. What a man.

@JabrenHarris98 Год назад

😂😂😂😂 yeah ok say that now lol

@FasterToTheEnd Год назад

@@JabrenHarris98 i take it all back.

@chestermadrigals45 6 лет назад

I’m from North Dakota, and this a trip hearing him talk about Sioux nation.

@cameronnebraska6049 6 лет назад

Ikr

@mexicanbitch57 6 лет назад

Myles Kjelshus But does his mother come from. The freeman.. Because he looks black

@imabannana1238 6 лет назад

Mexica Queen because his dads black lol

@cameronnebraska6049 6 лет назад

@@imabannana1238 His dad isnt just black. Thats the thing... Black isnt a country is it? Its just a color. His dad could be 3rd generation alot of stuff. Bushy eyebrows...less corse hair...narrow nose...hes def multi raced. The dad that is.

@mexicanbitch57 6 лет назад

IdkMyUserName ! Oh.so he is fake..only got in by membership.. Because his mom look black..probably decendant from the slaves the natives adopted to their culture.

@AnAdorableWombat 2 года назад

Here come all of the wannabe natives trying to convince the world that blacks are native when kyrie is Black and native. 2 separate races

@hubbthepoet612 2 года назад

Black is native, black people are indigenous to the world.

@edyik6823 6 лет назад

A legend💯

@TheMatthiasRiots 6 лет назад

Needs to find a good medicine man to keep him healthy

@sayersaveRED 6 лет назад

👌100%

@lakesia7827 6 лет назад

😳

@alyiasthomas8713 6 лет назад

Yung Nando nah doctor for physical, medicine to keep bad energy coming towards him from others to try and hurt him in a sense. To keep his mind healthy as well.

@sonofcarti5346 6 лет назад

Shut up he the best point guard in the league

@UnrealOcean 4 года назад

nah hes a million-billionare from hoops now deprograming his mind

@jonahpelter7864 3 года назад

This is so beautiful, salute to Sioux nation and Kyrie

@daviddeli913 6 лет назад

Am happy to see you going back to foundation Africa next

@sidneypratt5493 5 лет назад

Steve johnson it's sad but true

@jojoandkruize8184 6 лет назад

This the only type of clout that natives finna get for a while.... I’m finna enjoy it👍🏽💪🏽💯💯💯#nativepride

@hailey7479 6 лет назад

he is my uncle i was there he sat with me and my family

@quisisreal 6 лет назад

Hayley Gates fr?, and is it like everyone descendants and all in the Native American tribes are related distantly?

@hailey7479 6 лет назад

@@quisisreal his biological mother is related to white mountains and im a white mountain and his grandma is siblings to my great grandpa

@quisisreal 6 лет назад

Hayley Gates cool 🔥🔥🔥

@quisisreal 6 лет назад

Hayley Gates btw I’m 16 so don’t feel weirded out when I say your cute. 💀💀

@hailey7479 6 лет назад

@@quisisreal lol thanks

@SamWorld23 Месяц назад

As a proud Native American on my mom and dad’s side and I am so happy for him because this is his mom’s tribe and I know that his mom will proud of him and his sisters

@mysticmagikstic8863 6 лет назад

This is monumentally epic he a real savage he even said native and not native American

@alilacy424 5 лет назад

We are Indigenous First Nation mixed blooded Africans who were stolen from Africa period..We have much in common with Native Americans..And we've had shared history of intermixing, forced colonization, and genocide..We are no different from Spanish speaking meztizos. Or Cajun speaking mixed blood Creoles..

@makossojunior987 3 года назад

Lol

@biggieshaq 6 лет назад

Odb was native American also

@TheKingJason3 6 лет назад

0:44 Kyrie looks just like his dad

@blueshinobi8665 2 года назад

Didnt know one of my favorite basketball players is native thats awesome

@effiegilbert9541 5 лет назад

OMG I was there and I got to shake his hand

@Keepthaheid 6 лет назад

I'm proud

@netsarebetter1067 6 лет назад

*Ima get a haircut right after this.*

@aisheadband5910 6 лет назад

SIOUX TRIBE 💪💪💪💪

@nicholasgarcia8055 3 года назад

I love this . As Americans we started off on the wrong foot . So much false history in this country but we can do better America. We will do better! Love, understanding, Diversity and education are the gateways to Peace and prosperity. Diversity increases IQ of a society and we can do Better America!

@bunbee2023 6 лет назад

Good man!!

@aaronwiesenfeld 2 года назад

✊🏽 🪶 💯 Bless your soul Mr. Irving.

@Johntb100 5 лет назад

I love this story.

@timr.m.3667 5 лет назад

This is great, but did anyone else notice he didn't really say anything & just said, "I've got a family, I've got a family, this is who they are & I was ignorant & now I'm part of your family"... Maybe I'm missing something, I just feel like he said nothing.

@venom03shorty43 Год назад

He is just happy to be apart of this particular family. Haha that’s what I would do if I found my family. “this is my family, this is my family, this is my family….”

@DanielEscamillaPueblo Месяц назад

He never says anything of substance but it fools dumb people into thinking "oh wow Kyrie is so smart and articulate" 😅

@drphot6050 6 лет назад

Love this man even more now!

@reveu1 3 года назад

why is ESPN airing this lmao.

@tonydiloreto2836 6 лет назад

That’s my favorite player!

@tavahbenyah9600 3 года назад

This is Beautiful

@ikavinskyy 5 лет назад

That’s so cool my second NBA player is Native American, I’m Native American but from a different tribe👍🏽🏀

@JacobSmith-xx4st 6 лет назад

Welcome to the family brother!

@mikegulliver4885 6 лет назад

"I call you, 'Middle Buffalo.' 'Sleeping Lizard?' Uh, I get back to you."

@desmonddejesus5 6 лет назад

we love a mysterious life full of surprises

@frozone2589 5 лет назад

Oh I was there

@cameronpitts7067 6 лет назад

What a cool dude im happy for him

@neongreenninja5433 6 лет назад

Kyrie Irving is very inspiring and a true champion. Keep it up bro im a big fan of you and your work. Very cool I love positive vibes.

@MsFuqyu 4 года назад

the Northern Cree nations send their love and luck, now win us a title. :)

@jamalpayne115 6 лет назад

Proud of this!

@jovonnareynolds5061 Год назад

I'm Oglala Lakota Sioux and related to him amazing

@chitocookiechihuahuaville4690 6 лет назад

So many of us that natives roaming around. Best story ever!

@poop6679 5 лет назад

I’m half of standing rock and Oglala but I’m more Oglala and I was shocked when he was lakota

@que8168 6 лет назад

I know he was caught off guard @3:09😂

@jb3257 6 лет назад

Que Hills 😭😭😭

@mosesboaz864 6 лет назад

Wait a minute

@zenith2930 6 лет назад

im a celtics fan i want just have a theme song come out titled little mountain and for it to play in crunch time for celtics

@abcountry206 Год назад

This is huge for native Americans especially the youth

@michaeldominguez4180 6 лет назад

dope stuff. Sioux Celtics

@atlmuzikfanzinc 6 лет назад

His name is He La not little mountain

@MrluisV3000 6 лет назад

How did he find this out? I’d like to research myself

@NickGreek781 6 лет назад

A true KING

@adduneek 6 лет назад

White people love being white. Italians love being Italian, Irish love being Irish, and Asians love being Asian Hispanic people love being a ihspanic black people will try to identify with anything except for being black! And from my heart I'm not trying to diss Kyrie but it just shows a mentality that still exist.

@zigzagandmanman 6 лет назад

uneek d that's because black peoples was located all over the world. Search up the 1828 definition of American and you'll see what I mean. And anyways, all other people's love our culture too lmao (hip hop, r&b, reggae, dancehall, jazz, blues, techno, rock and roll, soul food, our dancing, etc.)

@adduneek 6 лет назад

@@zigzagandmanman I definitely know and understand the history of black people on this planet we are the original people of the planet Earth but because we have been taught to hate ourselves we will try to identify with everything and everybody except being black. And yes people will dance to our music use our slang cheer for us in sports but as the great comedian Paul Mooney once said "Everybody want to be a nigga, but don't nobody wanna to be a nigga" lol. Oh and one last thing watch out for the people who try to mind fuck you and then start saying shit like oh 'my God why do you have to always bring race up'

@CycleCruza 6 лет назад

Brainwashing at it's finest. Get out of the box.

@inglewood6363 6 лет назад

The recessives named you BLACK like they named a dog a dog!!!!! Study!!!! Or stfu!!!

@adduneek 6 лет назад

@@inglewood6363 get out of my box with all that moor bullshit! My post was simply about how we try to identify with every other thing accept Who We Are. I'm Black and I'm Proud! but I have no hatred towards no other race on this planet

@sl1m_1k 6 лет назад

Congrats Kyrie!

@evurodogscooperleash382 3 года назад

I never knew this. Wow Kyrie has been through a lot

@Pophimdown 6 лет назад

@flatearthfatboy9589 6 лет назад

My boy Kyrie

@kingjason1795 6 лет назад

I luv my manz kyrie

@AnAdorableWombat 2 года назад

He's black and native. Natives arent black.

@UncleAnaesthesia 3 года назад

We need a hero like Kyrie.

@exoticdirtt9276 5 лет назад

I’m native I’m part Oglala and part standing rock

@michellerucker7203 Год назад

Aho this men right here from Vincent Edwin LIEB

@lordhermskillz86a2thaz5 4 года назад

Aho my brother!!!

@qornh4197 Год назад

I hope these same people stand up with him

@lashuntamiddlebrook6192 5 лет назад

Wait until they find out who the original gate keepers God’s chosen true people are

@Mikejones-gq8yx 6 лет назад

return of thé ANCIENT KNOWLAGE OF self ! thank you!!!! WASHITAW family !

@kingadameagleshield7790 5 лет назад

Kyrie is my uncle that is awesome news!!! He is Coming back to standing rock Yess!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@kingraegaming 6 лет назад

Kyrie going the Lakers 2019

@realbro1415 6 лет назад

He'd rather go to any team that LeFraud's not on!!!

@jedibettelyoun8885 6 лет назад

My school got kicked out from there 😭😭

@ezekielaboluwade7703 6 лет назад

A lot of african americans like myself dont know that some of our ancestors are were natives i was shocked myself when i found out i was 17.7 percent native and 1 percent european we should all look at our history✊🏿

@geraldos9094 6 лет назад

The Indians believe the earth was flat...now it’s making sense.

@WutTheDeuceGaming 6 лет назад

us Indians this day in age, don't all believe that. You're comment is flawed. JS

@chrisscott1776 6 лет назад

Common Sense tells us the Earth is Flat - Albert Einstein

@Crxyzee 6 лет назад

dam u really said "indians" lol

@josephredhorse9220 6 лет назад

Not true

@kalatheballa 6 лет назад

No we don't lmaoooo

@BlakJakk Год назад

Kyrie, Hawah is with us... keep standing up against the Synagogue Of Satan, you represent Judah well

@lafartball2286 6 лет назад

Kyrie is as native American as Elizabeth Warren's cheekbones

@imabannana1238 6 лет назад

LaFart Ball his mom is Native American tho

@yourightfosho8879 6 лет назад

IdkMyUserName ! Google chahta tribes and click image

@Walfuz 5 лет назад

His mother is half Indigenous American and Black, and he's a member of the Standing Rock Tribe. He's not denying any roots, he's actually doing the opposite and embracing his mother's family.

@lyssaar2552 4 года назад

Hunkpapa lakota 💯💯

@kdencechasinghawk45 5 лет назад

Oh my God wtf I'm a native oh my God didn't know this

@kdencechasinghawk45 5 лет назад

Btw I'ma native

@cameronpitts7067 6 лет назад

So his mother is part souix?? She looks to of mixed african decent

@mexicanbitch57 6 лет назад

TigerArmy 13 Yes.. This is ridiculous

@imabannana1238 6 лет назад

Mexica Queen how is it ridiculous?

@atlmuzikfanzinc 6 лет назад

TigerArmy 13 she is mixed with black. She has a black father. Something people seem to be skipping.

@yourightfosho8879 6 лет назад

Mexica Queen Google chahta tribe, shinnecok tribe, pokanoket tribe, why they look brown? And why Webster 1828 dictionary say copper color indians YOUR PALE SWEETS

@ousmandiallo2823 3 года назад

@@atlmuzikfanzinc this is what they do, try their very best to disregard their AFRICAN ROOTS.

@z3nx65 6 лет назад

Lol there was a fight over there

@JorgeHercules-is4ut Месяц назад

I use to pray with the native Americans in yts Chino I remember I use to so e times choose to stand up and pray but I use to lift my hands and pray to Jesus

@kristianyaka_nation3137 6 лет назад

Yo Judah what's your thoughts? #Allegedly

@steelmatic101 5 лет назад

He's more of an Indian then any so called Indian on the reservation!

@keystonestatewarrior3358 6 лет назад

So Durant joins an already All-star squad that is now a superteam...LeBron goes for the glitz and glamour of Hollywood...well, hell Kyrie, wasn't much else you could've done but get an entire tribe behind you! 😂