The Captivity of Jenny Wiley and the Fate of Her Baby at the Hands of the Cherokee (Ep. 2 of 3) 

Today's young generations have no clue as to how it is that they exist today.. privileged lives..just a few generations ago their ancestors went through hell and high water to complete a life cycle.. AMAZING'GREAT VID

Amazing how these people survived such atrocities

There is a Jenny Wiley State Park here in Kentucky. I am so glad to know what her story is.

Humans then were so much tougher and mentally stronger than most today.

Holy heck. It's really hard to fathom how people could just kill babies like that

Wow that poor woman. Great episode

How did she not lost her mind? That poor woman. Such brutality

I would love to have the wisdom and medicinal knowledge of the Shawnee Chief. So much information lost.

You do an excellent job of sharing History Stories.

This story in particular is of great interest to me. Im from SW WV and my family were the earliest of settlers in this area. I know a few of these locations.

Mary Draper Ingles is another similar story, to that of Jenny Willey. Very interesting

Another great episode! Hard to imagine what these captives went through at the hands of the indians

Really interesting

I was waiting for this one, thanks.......

Another great episode, thanks!

Great work. Keeps history real and alive

That Shawnee Chief sounds truly sadistic

Unworthy History is Worthy. 🤠🖖♨️

Jenny is my great, great… grandmother…

Guyandotte - is pronounced "GUY Ann Dot" River, like g'day. It's a WV river, miles east of Kentucky. And, there is NO -LOUISA- Creek/River. It is the LEVISA ("Luh VIE zuh") Fork, larger of the 2 forks - Tug Fork and Levisa Fork that make up the Big Sandy River (and the water border between KY and WV), that feeds into the Ohio River. My dad's family branches all along the Big Sandy - Levisa, Paint Creek, Mud Lick, or, more currently known as between Paintsville/Oil Springs/Barnett's Creek (Johnson Co.) to Louisa (Lawrence Co) on through Ashland (Boyd Co where I am) and Flatwoods (Greenup Co) - aka The Country Music Highway, US 23, in northeastern Kentucky.

Great story thanks a lot.👍👍

Thank you. I have gotten alot of enjoyment from your history teachings. Life was brutal back then. I am also surprised you don't have a bigger following of at least one million or so.

There is a state park in Johnson county, KY named for her. Junny Wiley State Park

Excellent video! Thank you Sir!

Truly mankind is just plain evil. I believe God mention that. The heart is desperately wicked. What this woman went through. Looking forward to her escape. And how she managed her life after all that happened to her. Thanks for the unworthy history.

Thx again for telling us about real history

I think I would lose my mind if I saw those things happen to my children and then my baby..

Super exited for next episode 😊

Great job!!!

We got some good ones up here in the Great White North too. In which Canadian Natives welcomed the first refugees from Europe; " Once they had landed, they lit fires, planted stakes in the ground, burned five Frenchmen, roasted six children, and grilled some others on the coals and ate them." The Lachine massacre, CBC A People's History

Good Stuff

it is crazy to hear of all these events in places that are like home. I have family in the area of brushy mountain and along the big sandy river.

I really appreciate your service. The history of the settlement and civilizing of North America and the establishment of the USA in relation to the stone age civilization that was displaced by this has been distorted to the point that many people in the US and internationally consider it a genocide of the pre-European peoples, when it fact the opposite was the case. Your studious exploration of the facts through actual accounts and other records is capturing in one location the truth: that the Indians savagely dominated each for power, wealth, ego and glory, and attempted to do the same against the unaggressive, passive American tribe, mainly agricultural, who came on the scene, and failed. It was an "invasion" of farms and farmers who did not seek to destroy the Indians and whose violence against the Indians was in almost every case in self-defense. I have a question which I hope you can answer but I have not found an email to ask you. I have lost the source of an account about an incident in the late 19th century where a mounted war party of about 2,000 Sioux were about to attack an encampment of women and children of another tribe whose warriors were on a buffalo hunt, to stop once and for all the murders of Sious people by that tribe. The encampment asked to meet with the war party to talk things out but were refused. As the Sioux advanced on the encampment the US Cavalry showed up and the Sioux dispersed. Are you familiar with this incident and can you cite a good info source about it online? Thanks.

Connelly’s works on eastern Kentucky are very good. I had family in the area at the time in question & have traveled the watersheds involved. So I must point out one mistake on your map shown at the 1:30 mark. Brushy Mountain crossed by the party taking Mrs. Wiley was located in Virginia (as opposed to the Brushy Mountain in Estill Co. KY displayed in the video).

Alan Eckert is an excellent source for the Shawnee in Ohio.

After hearing many of these accounts, very obvious patterns appear. 1. Women and children were not appreciated or even given human status by American Indian men. Their lives meant as much to the men as any deer they might have for supper. They were only considered vehicles to satisfy their needs and wants. 2. Indians were mired in superstition and incivility. Consider that in Europe in this same year, Mozart was churning out compositions, the baroque age was in full swing, people read newspapers and sipped coffee in Venitian cafes. The Indian way of life would probably seemed backwards, brutal and primitive in the Babylonian times. 3. Movies like ‘Dances with Wolves’ may have been well intentioned, but are so patently false as to almost be damaging. I’m guessing such movies were made because the 50’s/60’s Westerns portrayed Indians so brutally. Little did people realize those brutal depictions were sanitized versions of reality. Smashing infants brains against trees, throwing newborns into ovens, and raping women in front of their families are the painful truths. To ignore it is to belittle the real suffering of the victims. I’m not saying westerners never wronged Indians in brutal ways. Far from it. But it’s exceptionally dishonest to pretend Indians were Buddhist monks on the plains.

Fascinating.

GREAT CONTENT BROTHER!!!!!! PLEASE KEEP IT COMING!!!! 👍

Makes you understand why the Trail of Tears occurred 40 years later.

This should be taught in school. Instead kids are taught that all indians were peaceful until the pilgrims landed.

How did she survive the murder after murder after murder of her children? I cannot even imagine.

Mrs Wiley's therapist would need a good therapist, just to deal with all the trauma Mrs Willey lived through.

I’m curious how she knew which Indians were from which tribe; why this raiding group was away from their tribes for so many months; how she could understand so many foreign languages so seemingly easily.

I'm surprised there telling the truth about the savage of the Indians

Please research captive Catherine Gougar Goodman.

The murder of children was brutal. I can’t imagine a mother witnessing her babies being brutally killed & then scalped. I am surprised they kept her alive.😖

We think they behaved badly but we were invading their country and we didn't understand their culture. I'm sure the settler's were equally as bad when it came to dealing with native Americans. Lets remember, we virtually destroyed their way if life and forced them to live on ever smaller plots if land. How would you react if someone invaded America?

WEIGHTY AND DEEP

Your map locating brushy mountain is not correct. Your story dictates that this brushy Mount was located in the headwaters are the bluestone River in West Virginia. Your map showing the video incorrectly shows a location near Richmond Kentucky.

We vould have learned and exchanged much with the Native Peoples. B9th could have evolved and experienced far greater values. It seems instead, we gathered negative ideas from them and them from us. Who was really Civilized, and Higher Minded. The vile actuons of imankind. How can it improve in the world until it improves in man's heart and mind?

I thought the Cherokee were one of five civilized tribes.

Great, pithy book title lol

The Westo had already sold a lot of the natives in the SE into slavery in Barbados. The Cherokee were not originally from here. My guess is they came here after the beaver wars.

Did the Natives kill their own kids the way they did the kids if captives? Its horrible to hear

What a load of BS. Australia's only involvement was having a single Australian officer somehow involved. So much for a united front. The usual propaganda lies.

This is not a true story. Both tribes never traveled or camped together. If it was one tribe it would be believable.