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HI Lakota person here. A better term for Sioux is actually Ocheti Sakowin which means 7 council fires to denote the 7 tribes that united in an alliance. There were 4 Dakota tribes (Mdewankton, Sisseton, Wahpekute, Wahpeton), 2 Nakota tribes (Yankton and Yanktonai), and 1 Lakota tribe (Teton). I don't know about the groupings below tribes of Dakota and Nakota tribes but yes below the Lakota tribe we had band like Oglala and then smaller sub-bands below that.
Yes, there was no pre-Columbian universal terminology for groupings of Indigenous Americans. There were however common historical examples of different groups. These levels were usually (from largest to smallest) Confederation ie: The Iroquois Confederation Nation ie: The Cherokee Nation Tribe: The Lenape Band: The Mississippi Choctaw Also these groups weren’t static. People groups could divide or grow at any time based on several factors like; a common enemy, a regional pandemic, a famine, or a surge in natural resources (like Great Plains Bison).
@@nathanbeard3561 Yeah like one thing he didn't mention was that the Cheyenne were originally 2 separate tribes who joined together to become the Cheyenne and then split into the Northern and Southern Cheyenne
I am friends with a guy I was in the Marines with. He is a proud tribal member of the Two Kettles/Oohenunpa. He would tell me stories about his 5th Great grandfather Joesph Four Bears who was part of a group known as the fool soldiers. The story is amazing and I remember him telling me so clearly. I owe that man alot he was a real mentor to me. After the Marines he moved back to the Res and became a fireman because "he could help..". He immensely proud of his family, Tribe, country and Corps. Unfortunately he's developed health issues but he is still positive and he is always quick with a joke.He taught me about things I never knew about "Lokata", the 7 tribes, how involved in US politics, how importance of eagle feathers and gave me my first guitar.
My people call themselves Tsm'syn, but through English transliteration we're commonly known as Tsimshian. It means "the people inside the Skeena River", the Skeena River being a part of our traditional territories.
Just want to say, working in a store in downtown Seattle I've met and chatted with several Tsimshian people-mostly fishing boat workers. Those I've met have been very friendly, outgoing, and a real pleasure to talk with.
When discussing "red talkers" and "white talkers" you should check the medicine wheel. Every color has a meaning beyond just aesthetics. The medicine wheel has 4 colors, white, red, black and yellow, and also denotes wind, air, fire and earth at the same time labeling directions.
interesting. traditional Chinese Cardinal directional association would be. Black for North, Blue for East, Red for South, White for West, and Yellow for Center. That's why Chinese Emperor is Yellow Dragon. actually, that's little odd. East is Dragon, West is Tiger, South is some mythical bird, North is turtle and snake thing.
@sciphynuts what? It's very similar to the western humours, which only went out of medical fashion in the late 1700s, in some places not until the 1800s and went all the way back to at least the first millenium bc in Greece, if it isn't Infact older. Each humour had a colour and element associated, which is about as common as astrology across the entire planet for most of history. But sure, mention lies and totally real giants and other 'hidden' *cough fake cough* things
The names of tribes being derived from a term for "the people" is by no means unique to indigenous Americans, btw. For example, the endonym of German people, Deutsch, is descended from the Old High German term diutisc meaning "of the people"
@@КастетГлебов Actually we have the English to thank for the term "Dutch". The English people revered to the people of nowadays Germany and the Netherlands both as Dutch, it was only later on when Germany and the Netherlands became seperate countries that "Dutch" was exclusively used for the people of the Netherlands and the term "German" became mandatory for Germany.
The Welsh word for Wales is Cymru, which literally means 'region of our forefathers' and now technically means 'Us' or something similar along those lines.
The “red talkers” and “white talkers” use the color to designation based on the color associated with the direction. The color red is associated with the east, which as your map shows is where most Algonquin language speakers were from when looking at where the Sioux/Lakota people live. The color white is associated with north, yellow with the south, and black to the west. Blackfoot, of which my great grandmother was fully, are so called because they lived west of the Sioux/Lakota (black = west). The colors have other meanings, but that was the explanation given to me by my paternal great grandmother and grandmother (both could speak Blackfoot, Lakota, Kiowa, Cheyenne, and even Choctaw as my great grandmother had moved to Oklahoma with my great grandfather prior to the land runs and lived in different areas; interestingly my maternal great grandfather would make the land run of 1893 so I have a family that experienced Oklahoma’s territorial history very differently depending).
interesting. traditional Chinese association would be. Black for North, Blue for East, Red for South, White for West, and Yellow for Center. That's why Chinese Emperor is Yellow Dragon. actually, that's little odd. East is Dragon, West is Tiger, South is some mythical bird, North is turtle and snake thing.
Hilbert, I have only recently started watching your videos and have found find them interesting. I am a retired medical secretary and definitely neither an academic nor a linguist, but I have been interested in languages since I was a teenager. I am an American but not a Native American. Thank you for making this informative video. I have never before seen a video on the subject of names of tribes of the indigenous peoples here in the U.S. The video does focus on some tribes and some geographical areas of the lower 48 states. Besides your planned video about the Blackfoot name, I wish that you will continue this series to include the names of other indigenous people of Alaska and Canada because there are other language groups and tribes that are and have been on both sides of the U.S./Canadian border for centuries.
As fellow geordie, hilbert please do more of these like this lady has put so politely. Thank you and appreciate all your hard work you put in to these videos there brilliant mate .
@@singharpan9859 They didn't change their names to a European name. They're still who they are. But since the overwhelming majority of people in North America are "European"; that's what you'll hear tribes called. I'm sure if you spoke to a native American, he would tell you his tribe's name in their own language. In fact, there are several doing just that in the comments.
I never thought of them like that. I know several of different tribes but mostly Navajo. Yes, their stories are something to listen to but in reality they are sadly jealous and suspicious..... Of mostly each other. In their very own families.. 😢
One possible reason why the Sioux called Algonquian speakers "red" is that many Native American Tribes have associated colours with the cardinal directions. From what I can gather the Sioux associated the colour red with north, and white with south (east and west were yellow and black, respectively). Calling Algonquian speakers "red" meaning northerners would make sense as the tribes north of the Siouan peoples were mostly Algonquian speakers (ie. the Cree and Ojibwe). No idea if this is actually the reason, but it makes sense.
That's interesting. There was a similar system in Irish at one point, and I think in various slavic languages, which gives us things like "black sea" and "white russia."
@@peterhoulihan9766 It's quite common across northern Eurasia, the Mongols, Turks, Chinese, Slavs etc. all had variations, often with a different colour for the centre.
Welsh had a similar system where glas now generally translated as blue. Was originally anything from shades of blue green and grey. But modern Welsh has gwyrdd(green) borrowed from Latin vertus and llwyd grey.
Yeah, French spelling forms difficult vowel chains sometimes. Based on the sounds and words from many other native nations, Irokwa or Irokwe would be closer. But I don't remember what they use themselves. Many nations of that language group end their names in -onk, think the Hurons' own name was like that too, but there were some smaller nations westwards of the Iroquois whose names ended in that -onk. It stuck to my eye, because no other language group around them did the same. This was in some map of the native nations of North America.
This is very interesting considering that my grandmother was born in 1889 in Sioux City, Iowa. She passed on the stories that she heard as a child about the Sioux in the area. Along with that, I came across all these names during my time with the Boy Scouts. The American west during the expansion period is my favorite historical period.
The muskugee tribe that originally loved in the southeast United States are say known as the Creeks. Creek nation specifically refers to the muscogee people.
@@douglasphillips5870 It was a Roman Latin pejorative used for the indigenous Gaels of Northern Ireland, the Scoti, the future settlers of Dal Riata, hence the original "Scots" came from Ireland over 1500 years ago.
I think the Ute word tika means 'eater', or maybe it's just 'people; folk; nation'. They named many of their neighbours with that ending - tika. Some related Uto-Aztecan nations have it in the form tiga or tega. Even the word form Texas, could come from such a word: the Spanish name is Teja(s) - Texas was the older Spanish spelling with X for that kh sound now with J - like there name Javier can also be spelled Xavier. So teja aka tekha can easily come from teca, tika. Mexico has Uto-Aztecan nations like Zapotec(a). Even the Aztec could come from the same root: tec-teca-tica-tika-tega.
Enjoyed this one. Any chance of looking at Australian Aboriginals? No shortage of language groups & origin stories. We didn't get taught anything in school so I'd be interested in learning a bit more
@@jlopez2482 That's exactly why we need to learn as much as possible now. Without concerted effort, the languages & cultures of Aboriginal Australians will be lost. The govt has spent 200 yrs trying to wipe out Indigenous people & their history, culture & languages. Luckily they failed. Elders have held the knowledge safe in many area's. They share it now with Libraries & Universities who work with them to document it as well as passing their oral history, culture & languages down to the next generation. The effects of the Stolen Generation has been profound so the work needs to be facilitated as much as possible, as soon as possible
Thank you so much for putting this together. Notwithstanding the Western movies I grew up with in the 60's and 70's, I have grown to deeply respect the Native North American Indians, particularly in the way they worked with and respect nature and also how they have managed to survive the white onslaught.
Good video, I work for an Indian organization in the US predominantly for California tribes - Pomo, Paiute and many others, as explained to me by an elder - all Indians usually were named or called by where they lived geographically speaking and or what they what their primary sources of food eaten... the language group "Paiute" was the name applied to the Indians that Europeans heard when they first encountered these tribes in the desert areas - it's their word for water - as in directing the new arrivals to where they could find a water source.This elder explained to me that her local tribe, who call themselves "Yerrington Paiute" (Nevada) were known as "the fish eaters by the river" in their native language. Most people are unaware that the greatest populations and number of tribes exist in California and the West coast of the United States. More tribes, more languages exist in this state then the rest of the country combined. Different language groups were named after their location. Stockton Pomo, some of my family are members of, are a different tribe from the Manchester Point Area Pomo - even though they are recognized by their language group of Pomo, same with Paiute, Miwok, Kiwok, Cohilla, Maidu, Pomo, Pauite, - these are just a few listed. All have incredible cultures and fascinating histories. Thanks for sharing this.
People never think that the state with the most natives peoples is California. It also tends to have the largest group of other nationals outside of their respective nations, Chinese, Koreans, Armenians, Salvadorans to name but a few.
You're so lucky to be able to meet some of them, how much time did you spend with them , and which tribes ? You should do a video about that . Keep it up pal : )
Very good! However, I believe you skipped right over the Shoshone and the Crow on your way west to the Nez Perce. My first woman role model (other than relatives) was Sacagawea who was Shoshone. Chief Washakie was a great Shoshone leader. There is a wonderful statue of him at the University of Wyoming in my hometown of Laramie. If you every get back to the US, check out the Buffalo Bill Cody Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming. It is 5 museums, one of which is a wonderful Plains Indians museum. BTW, I currently live in Arapahoe County Colorado and the town of Kiowa Colorado is about 40 miles away. There are Native American names everywhere. The Denver area has a good sized mixed tribal community. One of my good friends is part Comanche and her brother conducts sweat lodges. I interviewed him for my Native American Religions class when I went back to college at age 43 (20 years ago).
I have been learning my native language. úcwalmicw is our word for human being. From what i can guess, the direct translation would be along the lines of “other being that is smart enough to interact with.” Showing the difference between us and animals. I am from the St̓át̓imc territory. (Sƛ̓áƛ̓imc if you want the fancy letters.) and the nearest translation i can guess is along the lines of “the place that is being used.” The Salish language family is certainly interesting. Each individual letter sound has an english word definition. t̓éna7-ear skwt̓us-face nkwt̓ústen-eyes ít̓em- to sing t̓ has to do with sensations. So we described our territory as such.
It's so great that you're learning your identity language. Do you know if Salish is talked natively by your tribe ? If not is there at least some form of introduction of the language in schools?
When I lived in New Mexico I learned that the Navajo tribe got their name from the Pueblo word meaning "head basher." The Navajo called themselves Dene. The Pueblo's ancestor people called the Anasazi were named by the Navajo as "ancient enemy."
@@jacobscrackers98 - Don't know much about eskimos and/or Inuit, but if you go far enough north, there's nothing much to burn - no trees or shrubbery. I suppose whale and seal fat burns, but I don't know how you'd get it alight without a starter flame.
The Navaho People travelled from the near Arctic of eastern Alaska/Yukon about 1200 AD when a volcano erupted. They apparently travelled down the east of the Canadian Rockies on their way to the southern desert. Dene
I really liked this video! Going on with the history of the Native Americans, could you do a video on the Algonquian Indians or the different Native Americans of Mexico?
Native Americans have standing in many ex-european families. I appreciate your work, because of a native American woman, Grandma Lone Bear, who nursed my sick pioneer Great Grandmother back to health. Her good works earned her a life time of tribute from my family.
Am very happy that you’re giving the First Nations of the States a spotlight on this channel along with so much history of Europe! And am happy you mentioned my state first New Mexico, the Comanches were a very big tribe here.
Jesse Caldwell Oh yeah thanks for reminding of that actually. Yeah the Comanche were in like the far Eastern parts of my state Donny think they had much interaction with the Pueblo and Navajo people but I’d imagine it’s not impossible. Today they’re descendants do at least.
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It would be very interesting to learn about the different languages and how they are related. The natives of the west coast from Washington, British Columbia and Alaska.
Thank you for this video Hilbert! I love Native American History, and I don't know very much about the North American tribes and cultures, but thank you to clarify it! As always great and very interesting video! :)
I took a very interesting class in college called Native American Perspectives, taught by a Lakota man. It was really eye opening. A lot of the names the European Americans call the tribes are the names given by their enemies. We learned about nedeouasioux (sp, sorry). He said it meant dirty little snakes. He also talked about the Eskimo [e-ski’-mo], who call themselves the Inuit. He said Eskimo meant “those who eat raw fish”, which was an insult. One book we were required o read was “I Heard the Owl Call My Name” by Margaret Craven. Another was “The Education of Little Tree” by Asa Earl Carter. They were both pretty good reads and an interesting glimpse into another culture.
the Native Americans indigenous to my hometown are the Nipmuc, and have a small reservation (not federally recognized though) less than a mile from my house
Dhruva Narayan to much interaction, they really don’t live there, they just own the land. All of them are intermarried with non Native Americans, and are all assimilated into mainstream culture, there are occasional events there
Nipmuc's nearly wiped out New England in the King Phillip War. (MY Ancestors were there) Hollywood makes a big deal out of Western tribes Indian Wars being dangerous and deadly but that war was by percentage the deadliest war fought in America. No one knows the Nipmuc were right up there with Apache for gorilla attacks on troops. Starvation and disease is what really defeated them.
I absolutely loved it. I hope that the native peoples can save their language. Their story has not been given any justice, hopefully in time that will change.
@Klaidi Rubiku I think all the sub-Saharan people are getting all the attention on the news right now that they deserve. Give some to the indigenous Native Americans they always get the shaft Oh butz iz fergetz ,dey uz tu be KAINGS N SHEEIT.
That was fun. A minor quibble, French soldiers on the plains wore white coats, not blue and would not have had beards. Also they would have shaved because they had both razors and sergeants.
Funny how there doesn't seem to be any indigenous people at all north of the 49th parallel. I live in Edmonton, and there are Sioux, or Nakoda, communities all around Alberta and Saskatchewan. Also Blackfoot or Siksika, Kainai and Piikani. We can learn to call people by their correct names if we make the effort.
I've said for a LONG time, that when the Spanish brought the horse back to North America, it was like giving gang-bangers cars. So that they could more effeciently and effectively express their power on others. One example, the Blackfeet, terrorized other tribes unfortunate to come across their path.
the Comanche were not much different. They started as part of the Shoshone around Wyoming, when they got horses the Comanche split off, and moved southward into Colorado and were allies with their cousins the Ute. But they had a falling out before the Europeans came and then the Comanche moves more south and became allies with the Kiowa and the Kiowa Apache. These later Comanche are the ones Hilbert writes of.
I lived in Northern Minnesota as a child. The Native Americans around were Chippewa, although we knew they were also called Ojibwe. We had heard that the local Ojibwe called the Lakota people to the west by the term Sioux which was not a nice name in their minds. There had been fights between the two groups. Chippewa was, I think, a mispronounced Ojibwe. Some had said that the Lakota people saw the term Chippewa as a derogatory reference to the Ojibwe.
I have been told that my Great-Great grandmother used to be Buffalo Bill Cody's 16 year old house maid and traveling caretaker. She was both French and Commanche. She had the jet black hair to prove it, too. I am told that we are distant cousins to Napolean Bonaparte. This little community called Tekamah, Nebraska. Has some very interesting connections to the old Wild West. I even went to school with a distant relative to Doc Holiday. We even had an 11 year old that ran away and joined the traveling circus. Only to become a silent movie celebrity. His name was "Hoot Gibson". There's a rodeo in town named after him.
I believe red talker / white talker refers to the cardinal directions. I can’t remember which is which, but I know red, yellow, black, and white were associated with north, east, west, south.
The Blackfoot in Montana would be Ahmskapii Pikuni or in Southern or Far Off Spotted Robes. Thank you for deciding to a separate video on us. I'd hate to have been lumped in with all these dog-eaters.
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Strange as it may seem, the Names Mohawk and Seneca were given to them by Mohegan Guides bringing the English into their area. Magua (Bears) is the name of the Mohawks as MO-Hawks means Maneater (Cannibal) and you may recognize the word in Tommohawk as man-killer. It was not meant to be flattering. The Word Seneca meant roughly SNAKE HEADS another word for crazy in Mohegan. Of course James Fenimore Cooper mixed up the tribes (Mohican is not Mohegan) and made Uncas a Mohican with a Delaware Father Chingachgook (Big snake) and the Delawares call themselves Lene-Lenape meaning roughly Regular Joes (People) All Algonquin speakers along the Atlantic coast. The Mohawks (Magua) called them Mingo's which roughly means Stray Dogs.
Algonquian (Alg.) languages might look like sprinkled around the USA, - if we just look at it from the current US perspective. But if you take Canada along, the language area is a pretty united area (thinking before the arrival of Europeans), bar a few language drifting a bit off the main groups. In Canada the Cree groups and some other Alg. talkers have spread to cover the whole area between the Great Lakes and the Rocky Mountains, and also the Eastern USA is linked to the Alg. nations in Canada, with no real pre-European gaps towards the lakes. So from this area some Alg. nations likely spread southwards to the Plains along the Rockies. In USA there are/were the strong Iroquois and Lakota (Sioux) nations stopping the Alg:s from covering the whole northern US.
Just a tip on pronunciation, try not to trill your "r"s. The most common "r" sound in native american consonant inventories is an alveolar approximate, so use the back of your throat like you might in German (using a familiar example)
@@northumbriensis I mean, afaik, a fair few Native Americans are involved in the protests too? And they are most certainly victim to police brutality and ethnic discrimination too if you look at the numbers.
Nah. Its more like “Old worlders” complaining about unfair treatment by higher authorities/officials, and the blatant misuse of their power. Native Americans/First Nations: “first time?”
I found out my great grandmother on my father's side was a full blooded Cherokee And I've always been fascinated and curious about my ancestry I don't have much contact with my father or father's side of the family I wish there was a way that I could try to learn more about it
I don't how much leverage you have on that but the sponsors' announcement/ad would be better if placed at the beginning. It's really annoying when it's right in the middle.
When Spain ruled the Netherlands, they forced people to take last names. To express Dutch displeasure, persons made up names of great humor, such as Bornaked. 😁
I was Raised in Idaho where the Nes Pierce are from. If you need a video idea I highly recommend Chief Joseph's story. It's an epic attempt to move his tribe to Canada while being chased by the US Army. So sad this story doesn't get the attention that it deserves.
Ka'igwu, is very much where Ki(-)owa would come. Such gw can be said so that the g is barely audible, for example in Spanish, or Guillaume in French - William in English. It's also possible that gw can alternate with simple w in different word forms, like in Welsh. Spanish has put gw to many native American names, where they would use w based on English. So Ka'i(g)wu is almost the same already as Kiowa (Ka'i- as Ki in English) - closer anyway than the Arapahoe name. Koh'owu' would likely produce more like 'Cowa'. Besides, those names can be even linked: the Arapahoe nation may easily haven given a name for the Kiowas that in their language means something, and sounds closest to the word Kiowas use for themselves. Nations have been known to do that too.
Very interesting....I would like to see more on both the tribes that had straight up European names gives (Blackfoot , Warm Springs both spring to mind) as well as more using names they either called themselves or have names originating from other tries. Some out where I live on the west coast might include the Lummi, Klamath, Modoc , Yakima tribes. In the south west you might cover Navajo and Apache.
You switched the last vowels how they originally were - you said: 'Kimantse' became 'Comanchi/Comanchy' (OK, this is the official English way to say it, but it's paradoxical :) ) - when it's Kimantsi became Comanche - the vowel you used in the end of Kimantsi is what the e means in the end of Comanche, just like in most langauges, including in the English word net. If you say that like ne', the result is pretty much how the Spanish, Latin and almost all languages (bar French & English) would end Comanche.
When thinking about the Algonquin migration, we have to look at Canada too: there the Algonquin nations are an unbroken chain (if we don't think of the European effects), just look at how far west the Crees reach from the Great Lakes area. I can prove it, but for me it seems the Alginquin moved along the Canadian plains, by and north of the Great Lakes, and some of them moved southwards. We would have to watch the population densities, and linguists should check the sound change patterns in the Algonquin languages, to estimate where was the original birth place of the language group. For me it looks like there's more of those nations in the east, many small and some large groups. So it would seem they started from somewhere in the Eastern North America, and some of them moved west on the Canadian prairie. It seems it happened relatively recently, later than 1000 years ago, because the Crees occupy a vast area, not many splits in the group. Then the Cheynne, and was it Arapaho (or Shoshoni), who are closely related to them, would have migrated south along the plains. In grasslands people can move quite far in one generation, even without horses. Or can the linguists show some other linguistic relations - are the Cheyenne closer related to some other Algonquian nation in the north, or east, than to the Crees or some other Algonquian nation on the Canadian side, or along the border area?
How about the Apaches, the Cheroches?,the Pajeros? I might have the spellings wrong. Are they also Indian tribes or from another race. Please explain. Thanks.
