She Was Abandoned To Her Fate: Indians Attack the Widow Scraggs' Family, Bourbon Co, Kentucky, 1787 

Our ancestors were a tough breed, this country was built on their bones.

So I found you channel not too long ago, and I really applaud you sharing some of this history. Mainly because today we want to look back and judge how the Indians were treated or the attitudes toward them, when PEOPLE TODAY DON'T KNOW WHAT IT WAS LIKE. Native American brutality against settlers has been swept under the rug so much that all people know about the natives are poor indigenous victims that were massacred by the Europeans and had their land stolen from them and culture destroyed. NOW, I am not overly critical of natives. I have g g grandparents who were native, a family member was married to a native, and they lived on a reservation and had native children. HOWEVER, I am a history student and fully agree that the facts all needs to be laid out on the table: the good, the bad and the ugly. I was reading something the other day about how "racist" Carolyne Ingalls was in the Little House on the Prairie books, and how unacceptable her attitude towards natives were. These people that attack her, I believe, are TOTALLY ignorant as to what was going on with the tribes at the times and the events leading up to the 1870s. It was obvious in the books that Mrs. Ingalls was justified in her distrust and fear (I've only re-read up to the Little House on the Prairie at this point). Thanks again for sharing REAL history.

Ann Hutchinson is a sad story of an Indian attack also. She and her children were sent to live in wilderness knowing hostile Indians would be angry. This was done by clergy because she had said we could read the Bible for ourselves and didn't need to listen to preachers only. We could pray and talk to God too. They had a trial and sent her and her children away to live in forest.

People just don’t understand how monstrous these attacks were. Always in isolated locations and perpetrated by far superior numbers.

This story is too sad for me to finish listening. Thanks for the valuable history lessons.

So much for the 'noble savage'. The Indian Wars didn't start in a vacuum, there was a great deal of history before them. Not all native tribes were this hostile, but there were enough who were to write a lot of these stories. What strikes me most is great criticism is afforded Custer at the LBH because he tried to corral the native American women and children in order to force a surrender of the Warriors. Is that such a dishonorable tactic when compared with how some native American tribes treated European women and children? There was plenty of brutality on all sides, the side with the greatest weapon technology won.

One thing in all these stories I’ve noticed is that the Indians loved easy pray. Very opportunistic as well. I assume they viewed women as something they could trade. Nothing noble about them as we have been taught. They viewed those log cabins like gold mines that they could rob if it wasn’t to risky. It also appears native Americans were involved in slave trading for a very long time.

Excellent as usual!

A tour guide in Scotland told us the Scots became the pioneers and mountain men tough enough to endure all this. They were used to fighting each other and the English atrocities too.

Thanks love these stories.

As a Brit, finding these original Pioneer stories very interesting. Have never been to America, but have no desire whatsoever to go to the big cities but following the routes of the Pioneers would be, I think, be very interesting.

I'm assuming these were shawnee? My wife is part shawnee and I can verify that they can be vicious creatures ...lol

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Another great video! Is awful the choices these settlers had to make sometimes. After Seeing your family killed by the Indians there is little surprise that there was such hatred toward them. Don’t know how I feel about the AI illustrations, guess I am getting used to them

That’s some writing!

Great story thanks!!

Very interesting story. I’m sure 90% of the time it was pretty dull, but oh, that 10% was horrible.

What happened to the woman with the baby? And what happened to the baby?

I live in extreme upstate New York near the Canadian border, and I'm surprised to hear him say it snowed on the 11th of April in Kentucky. That is unusual and late for even us in the Adirondacks. But it was advantageous in their pursuit of the attackers. It must have been a late or cold spring that year. P.S. I subscribed.

Till next time... 😢

Can you tell me who the "Colonel Edwards " is in this story, please? I am descended from Edwardses 8n that vicinity.

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This is great history! You stay as close contemporary sources. I adored the obfustication of what happened with the "posse," I would think that First Nations access and study of these sources must be a precious rescouce for reclaiming their long history on this hemisphere.

Poor little girl

ANd we're still meant to be sad for the indains?

we have a Black History month. but they don't talk about black plantation owners. in the interest of diversity maybe we need a white settler history month and we can tell a story of a different massacre everyday for 30 days at least. how many tens of thousands of settlers were mercilessly killed! their children were enslaved!

And now you know why there aren't any indians in Kentucky.

I WILL CONTRIBUTE.

I'm confused lol ...If they were following the tracks in the snow and the next morning the snow had melted wouldn't there still be tracks to follow in the mud from the melted snow🤔

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This story illustrates how there could never have been a co-existence between Americans of white European descent and the Native Americans. There was too much cultural difference, it was as if modern man met stone age man. Where the Natives were concerned there was really only two choices--annihilation or subjugation.

The fact remains that the indigenous North American culture was more often than not, one of violence, primarily towards other tribes. However, they also had heinous practices even amongst their own. No one disputes the territorial claims of indigenous peoples…what is held in question is the utterly uncivilized nature of their existence. There are a plethora of reasons that other occupying cultures found them undesirable. There could have been many different ways of resolution, but ultimately, they would not have been any better received nor embraced by our modern society than they were by earlier generations. Not everything about their culture was unpalatable… but definitely enough to cause panic and rejection by any more civilized societies, including the peace loving indigenous peoples already here. It tuned out to be a massive case of judgment of an entire race? based upon the behaviors of a few…a human trait still being practiced in our modern civilized world. There is sadness on both sides… but consider for a moment… had the indigenous peoples been successful in eradicating the male settlers, and kidnapping the female and children, to assimilate into their violent way of life, and forever alter the future gene pool of both sides. America would soon have been overtaken by warring factions of both the indigenous and other countries…. We would not exist, as the land of opportunity that the entire planet benefits from… and likely the indigenous would have significantly reduced their own numbers through repeated and ongoing violence and wars. It would have been a loss for everyone. None of that excuses the atrocities and broken treaties by Caucasian governing authorities. Though, I dare say that we would not prefer the different outcome of losing to the indigenous peoples here. Despite the tragedies… the higher good of the planet was served, albeit in a most unsavory manner.

Just don't understand why people would take a chance .

I never have been able to understand why settlers built houses among the savage indians . I mean damn it just don't make sense to me .

I am a descendant of frontiersmen Henry Skaggs. Never heard of Scraggs.

So we're my ancestors...the Chenoweth massacre.

"Noble savages"? Not so much.

But the shows of Native Americans in the 80s, conflict with this video.

Do you wonder why we put them on reservations.

We need a white history month

I have unsubscribed because I am unable to view some videos without becoming a member😠

dislike the use of AI pictures

Difficult to listen to these acts. However, as you know, violent hostilities were prevalent between Europeans well before their interactions with Native Americans. So it takes no great leap of imagination to know what would have happened to Native Americans had they tried to settle deep into Europe in 1787 and prior.

I feel for the Indians.

Read much too fast

Why don’t you do the history of slavery in America.

The Native Americans were there way before the Europeans.

im indian and i resent that exploded remark your an well im cathlic i wont say what you are

Nothing compared to the suffering and genocide of the native Indigenous at the hands of the settlers which has not yet been addressed or acknowledged as their suffering continues.! Moral of story is don't go and invade others people land and treat them like shit. ! It was not that the settlers were superior , they just just had guns and prepared to use them with no care and now with this obsession of guns , fill the world with horrendous violent films, and weekly news of mass shootings .

It sounds like you have a big chip on your shoulders about mysterious "elites". That's a big no on subscribing.

she looks like Paulina Poriskova today