Not really considering all natives get free college, natives forced to live on reservations get a monthly check my hair cut lady full blooded Cherokee gets 1800 a month because of the forced relocation as does all her children, living on a reservation is optional which is why 4 out of every 5 natives don't, if you look up the percapita funding of native schools they recieve 20k per student while the average U.S. school receives 12840 per student all while not paying taxes. Some natives at some points got "shafted" by the government. Others greatly prospered because of it and now all natives prosper because of it if they choose to. Native American reservations that are hot garbage currently is solely because of the barbarism of the residents. Another reason why 4 out of every 5 natives stay away from reservations.
@Sloppy Joe and the slavery and genocide of native Americans before African slaves and Africans selling slaves to Europeans and Africans and Europeans coming on the boat. And Africans being "freed" but no be able to go back to Africa? Hmmm
The uploader downplayed it massively. They owned slaves & refused to free them when the government told them to. And then refused to give them land & resources as part of a treaty and kicked them out of their tribes. The main tribes called the civilized ones owned slaves.
JoJo is not an anime don’t count all those deaths from sickness as a act of genocide, because if that is the case then the mongols were the biggest genocide commiters in history. The Bubonic plagues infected all of Europe and the Middle East. What happened to the natives AFTER 90% of them died unintentionally from old world disease was ethnic cleansing, not genocide.
@JoJo is not an anime and what? he never justified anything, only brought attention to the fact that they owned slaves as well and willingly fought for the confederacy. take that as you will
This channel evolved from "Well known events in history explained in 10 min" to "Obscure parts of history you've never even thought about but will find absolutely amazing in 4 min or less". And I love it 😀
honestly i learn more about the obscure parts of history. He also answers some of the most random question i had. Like what happened immediately after WW2
@@andrewparker1622 There's all sorts of important events with other tribes through this period. This episode's mostly about ones Andrew Jackson moved out to Oklahoma. The Cherokee had even won in the Supreme court to stay in their Georgia area, they printed their own newspapers about it. Atleast the Lakota and Cheyenne got some pay back on goldylocks when he's terrorizing them.
@@socktier6334 thank you, thank you. Without your help I wouldnt have known what the original comment would be trying to say even with the context of the video in mind
@@socktier6334...And fighting for the losing side in pretty much every war in the last 300 years (And owning slaves themselves... I was pretty surprised by that one)
Bheese Churger it’s not a war when one side steals the land from the indigenous people and ethnically wipes them out in a genocide. It’s like saying if China invaded the USA and killed all its people, would that be considered just a “war”?
I asked my Full Blood Choctaw Indian friend, who lives in Oklahoma, if his family lived on a Reservation; He told me the Choctaw Indians owned slaves before the Civil War and fought on the side of the Confederates. He said that when the war was lost, the government took away their land and divided it into 500 acre tracts to be dispersed for individual claims, Red or White. I believe it was his Great Grandfather who was able to lay claim of 500 acres, along with other Choctaw Indians, and over the years, that property has been past down to family members. My Choctaw Indian friend lives in a very comfortable cabin, near his aged mothers home (he is in his mid to late 60's), in the Southeast hills of Oklahoma surrounded by many Aunts, Uncles and Cousins.
@@beastshawnee 85% of whit epeople owned no slaves and only 5% of those that did owned more than 10. If the excuse can be given to the Choctaw it can be given to the British descendants that made up the south.
@@Aceshot-uu7yx every peoples have owned slaves, doesn't matter if your native American, European, African, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean or South American, Humans have owned slaves since the first cities arose, it is engraved into the fabric of civilization, even before the Europeans, my tribe waged war and took slaves from other tribes, its the the way of humans to do such a thing to eachother, no one people is better than another, other than the people who choose to get rid of slavery despite it being so engraved into the foundation of civilization
@@brandoncampanaro7571 the problem us people act as if whites massively inslaved blacks, it was an ever changing oligarchy of planters that did so and no society deserves to get called out nore then any other. People act as if America is more evil then others or as if it was every white person owned one, it was always something the rich had.
The reason the land was divided up among individual indians, as opposed to being one large reservation, was to allow them to sell their land. This happened shortly after oil was discovered in large quantities in Indian Territory. Split up the land and give it to individuals and an outsider can come along and buy the land from the indian, typically for next to nothing, perhaps a bottle of whiskey. Now you own property in Indian Territory with oil on it. Although this did work out well for the Oklahoma indians in the long run. I have a great job working for the Chickasaw Nation and have for almost 15 years. Btw, I am Cherokee.
Revolutionary War: Let's side with the British so we can get our lands back. Civil War: Let's side with the Confederacy so we can get our lands back. They never could catch a break.
@@grandinquisitor8335 In some ways, definitely. But they get massive casinos where they make shit tons of money, they could get billions from the Govt. if they accepted settlements (I understand why they won't but still) and they have autonomous lands where they can create their own laws and authority. In many ways, they have it better now than the rest of us.
@@dukedase7 I agree but many things still need to be fixed with its high school dropouts and allowing more urbanization within the reservations throwing money at something doesn't always fix things
@@grandinquisitor8335 Yeah you're right. A lot of stuff they can fix themselves, too, though. I think they may have a problem with the people in control of money being greedy and not helping properly, same as us, there, lol. They also have huge drug/drinking problems that need to be fixed.
Natives can't pick a right side to save their lives lol. French-Indian War: Well, the French were nice to us. They seem like a good choice. Revolutionary War: The British won last time, there's no way these Rebels could beat them! Civil War: Well, the British actually lost, so this time we'll back the Rebels!
@@gulmaraz5931 Wasn't there a whole period where there was straight up genocide when bounties were put on buffalo to exterminate their food sources and forced relocation and rape and murder by US Calvary? I feel like the Reservations are a result of much worse shit.
@Amon Ra Lol "its evolution babe" in this context is a fundamentally wrong phrase that illustrates a complete lack of understanding in regards to evolutionary theory. "Weaker" or "Stronger" does not play a factor, rather which organism is more specialized for a specific niche. "The strong will survive" is actually only true in a very narrow outdated interpretation of evolution. It's also literally Hitlers excuse for committing genocide on the Jews.
As a Navajo, what's neglected to be mentioned that during the American Civil War, We Navajos partake into the war. However during Lincoln's Presidency the union army invaded our territory, years before Arizona and New Mexico were born, we were attacked, and forced for what is now known as "The Navajo Long Walk" to Bosque Rodondo and we're kept imprisoned from 1864-1868. If anyone wants to correct or add anymore info than I gave I love to learn more as well.
The brainwashed fools who still think the Union were the "good guys" don't want to learn anything about the Long Walk of the Navajo, or the execution of 38 Dakota ordered by Lincoln.
@@publicanimal Are YOU going to cry too? Do you need a tissue a pacifier or both? Its 2023, and NOTHING you say or feel will changed what happened! If the North did NOT win, you probably wouldnt be living as a 'relatively' free American now. The Natives in Canada nor Mexico were NOT treated particularly better, in case you didnt know!
Always happy to know more. The biggest issue with Northern indigenous nations/tribes is that there are so many of them. Cherokee were split (still seem an issue) but they were more union then confederate but the issue is not just during the civil war but all the things that happened after it (because Sherman was was worst in the west then he ever was to the south).
There were natives who volunteered in several Wisconsin regiments, the soldiers were given tips by them as how to use natural foilage for camouflage They spoke well of them and their courage
The bald eagle, Old Abe that the Wisconsin "Iron Brigade" had was given to them by a Native American. He had captured the bird near the Fox River. Old Abe is also depicted on the 101st Airborne Division's patch.
chaosXpert and the fact that they wore gaitors was a nod to the old whites the iron brigade war. I used to reenact the 2nd Wisconsin “Iron Brigade” lots of fun! I studied a lot of different histories of men and units and it was always fascinating. Not just that unit either I mean across the board but still
@@StevenRecknagelMusic I live near Green Bay Wisconsin and I love history so naturally I had to learn about Wisconsin's history in the Civil War. What amazed me so much is that Old Abe is the bald eagle on the 101st Airborne's patch. The 101st is a famous division, and Wisconsin is linked for them because of a bird a Native American gave the Iron Brigade!
chaosXpert wait though I think old Abe was given to the 8th Wisconsin And the uniform nods came from the iron brigade The 8th was in the west at Vicksburg etc The iron brigade was in the east
As a complete non - specialist, I hadn't heard of slavery being important to the Tribes' economies and I wonder what they made the slaves actually do. Did the tribes have big plantations too?
@@bificommander7472 In the case of the 5 civilized tribes, they had spent the decades prior to removal trying their best to adapt to the influx of white colonists in the south. In many cases, they adopted European-American houses, clothing, and hairstyles, styles of farming and land ownership, Protestant Christian religion, and they were on their way to assimilating to the English language. And, since this was in the context of Southern culture, they also adopted the 'peculiar institution' - chattel slavery. All of this was not only due to the influence of simple proximity, but also as a conscious gamble that, if they assimilated fully to European-American culture, maybe they'd be embraced and accepted by that culture, and not be ultimately forced to leave their homelands. Unfortunately for them, the one quality that the white Southern population ultimately cared about was also the one quality they couldn't change - their race. Despite giving up nearly everything that made them who they were, the 5 Nations were still ultimately deported so that white Southerners could take their land.
I think it's interesting how many people today forget that Native Americans aren't just one group. They are dozens of different tribes that often fought one another, owned slaves, conquered land, etc. Europeans merely brought a whole new set of issues to an already turbulent landscape. Sadly, one of the greatest issues was the introduction of European diseases (intentional and unintentional) from which natives had virtually no immunity to.
Samuel de Champlain showed up on the St Lawrence and was asked “hey could you help us win a battle” by the natives he encountered. Guy was there 5 minutes, bought some furs, and was invited to a war.
If there was another continent in the pacific, I think the peoples of the America's, wouldve been able to have the desises ravage them in the 1200 to 1400s and given time for the population the rebuild itself and inturn holding on to the contient the same way we "colonized" Africa, but those desises made it imo, impossible in every single scenario for my people to hold back the tide of poor Europeans
"introduction of European diseases (intentional)" Really? Are you saying that Europeans knew about germs and diseases and knowingly used germ warfare at that time? Someone should tell that to Louis Pasteur. Also, the Indian tribes were very proud of their medicine men's knowledge of sickness and healing herbs. However, according to you, those hundreds of herbs weren't very effective to the diseases mentioned.
@@darz3829 pasteur allegedly admitted that germs dont cause disease before he died. It was a mistake of correlation vs causation. But yes you're correct they knew a lot about medicine back then
Stand Watie had a crazy life, I only have surface level knowledge about him but his early life was hijacked by intrigue, he was the only confederate general who was also native, and he was apparently a genius when it came to hit and run tactics.
He also killed the guy that assainated his Uncle "ON SIGHT" Imean soon as he saw him he killed him and beat the charge in court. General Stand Wadie a LEGEND
You forgot to mention General Ely S Parker. The first Native American General in the US Army Parker was. Seneca Indian from upstate New York and had a degree in engineering. He was denied entry into the Union Army on account of his race and so he wrote to his friend who he’d known before the war, Ulysses S. Grant. Grant needed engineers and knew Parker and so he commissioned him as a Colonel. Parker would then stay beside Grant for the rest of the war and would help Grant engineer many victories such as his victory at the Siege of Vicksburg. When Grant was promoted to commander of all Union armies Parker went with him to the East to face Lee. As such when Lee finally surrender Parker was in attendance as was al of Grant’s staff and he actually wrote he surrender document. When Less entered Appomattox he was surprised to see a Native American General as he simply wasn’t expecting that since it had never happened before in American history. Lee then walked over to Parker and our stretch his hand saying “At least there is one real American here.” Parker shook Lee’s hand and replied “We are all Americans here.”
Hello there! It is interesting indeed to hear about Ely Parker's story, but I would put a question on the statement that Parker wrote the surrender document. Here is Grant's description of that moment in his memoirs, as far as it pertains to this point: "[...] General Lee again interrupted the course of the conversation by suggesting that the terms I proposed to give his army ought to be written out. I called to General Parker, secretary on my staff, for writing materials, and commenced writing out the following terms [...]" ... with a copy of the text there. Thus, it seems clear that the text came from Grant's own hand to begin with. Unless this has been definitely shown to be false, I would go with Grant's description on this. Now if it were a question of further copies being written out on the scene, as Grant himself noted as being done a little further on in his story, then that, I think, would be the more likely moment at which Parker had a direct involvement with the surrender terms.
At the surrender meeting, seeing that Parker was an American Indian, General Lee remarked to Parker, “I am glad to see one real American here.” Parker later stated, “I shook his hand and said, 'We are all Americans'.” Ely Parker eventually had a post in Grant's administration. The Lumbee were viewed as a potential danger to the Confederacy and if I remember correctly, helped Sherman.
@@kiwitrainguy ... because a man who looks like a native american when the rest of the native americans are fighting against you wouldn't be suspicious at all... you visit a video to bitch about the internment of japanese during ww2 yet?
If anyone's interested, the children's novel Rifles for Watie is all about the American Civil War in the Indian Territory (modern Oklahoma). I read it like 3 times as a child and loved it.
Was wondering if someone was going to mention this. I also loved that book. Imagine my surprise when I found out one of my ancestors actually rode with watie.
Fun fact, the final military operation east of the Mississippi was the so called Battle of Waynesville, where the Eastern Cherokee and the Confederate home guard used psy-ops to trick the Union commander in Waynesville to believe himself surrounded. He was all set to surrender the town, but they, having learned first of the capitulation of General Johnston, surrendered to him instead.
You forgot about General Eli Parker a Seneca Indian who was on Grant’s staff and wrote the terms of surrender for Robert E. Lee At Appomattox Lee would remark (somewhat jokingly) “At least there is one true American here.” Parker responded “We are all Americans here.”
Funny thing is that it was the Southerners who really took their lands away from them in defiance of a Supreme Court Order which Andrew Jackson, a southerner refused to enforce.
There are a lot of weird misconceptions about slavery out there. People tend to see it as inextricably tied to European colonies but the reality is that most societies practiced slavery in one form or another. It would be pretty odd if Natives were somehow different
@@randomman9231 not all schools use the same books chief. I also went to school in Indiana. Shit town called North Vernon about 30 minutes from Kentucky and our history books mentioned no such thing.
Thanks for covering the history of the Civil War in Oklahoma. It’s a theater of the war that’s often ignored, even though over 170 battles and at least 3 major battles took place there.
You forgot talk about Ely S Parker the Seneca lieutenant colonel secretary of General Grant. He wrote the final draft of the Confederate surrender terms at Appomattox
When Robert E. Lee found out Parker was Seneca, he remarked, "It is good to have one real American here." To which Parker replied, "Sir, we are all Americans."
Haven’t watched the video as of yet but I’m so glad you did this topic. People don’t know that they even had representation too. Also the confederate senate is also interesting because it didn’t run like the US senate did.
@@Darkfawfulx well correct if I am wrong but I had read as well that it even had somewhat of a parliamentary-style "flavor" if you will lol. There was even a vote of no confidence as well. Let me check my sources.
@@Darkfawfulx update: sources came to a dead end. I could possibly be wrong. I am willing to admit when I am. I do remember reading that somewhere though.
@@Cheeseman42046 I think you are atleast a bit correct my friend, the confederate states did have a bit of a different system, longer terms and most small things like that
I live in California and we also learned about Indian involvement in the war. Stand Watie was even mentioned in our textbooks as the last Confederate general to surrender.
@@johnspinelli9396 some states and schools have differing cariculems on the same subject, mostly because that place decided thats how they want to teach it
Texas mostly teaches the Mexican American war. It also emphasized on why Texas had to be annexed by Washington or New York? (At the time Capital was not in DC)
As an additional note, one of the worst massacres against Natives in US history occurred during the war, in November 1864 in the Colorado territory. A territorial militia commanded by John Chivington annihilated a village of peaceful, pro-US Cheyenne and Arapahoe people. As the men were mostly away hunting, the victims were largely women, children, and elders. Not content to just kill them, the white militia also mutilated the corpses of the women, cutting off breasts and vulvas, and bringing these to Denver to proudly display in public. Chivington was tried for the crime, but was later acquitted.
Even Kit Carson-a well known Indian fighter himself and not exactly what one would call a bleeding heart liberal-called Chivington's men "cowards and dogs."
@@johnratican3824 That's one of the more shocking parts for me - when Kit Carson, architect of the Long Walk of the Navajo, is disgusted by your war crimes, you *know* you're a piece of sh*t
@@johnratican3824 Reading about it's astonishing how well Chivington managed to be an utterly awful person with no redeeming features. He should've been hung not only for mass murder, but for treason as well, considering the group he attacked were at peace with the US government and the attack galvanized native resistance in the area
I remember having an illustrated book as a child about Cochise. There was a page devoted to the fact that the white men he had been fighting and some he had befriended left for a period to fight each other with an illustration of union and confederate troops. I had and read this book prior to learning about the civil war, so it was kind of my introduction to it
Well done. Also, on the Minnesota/Dakota frontier, there was a "Dakota War" that pushed the frontier eastward after Federal troops were withdrawn to fight the main war.
Can you do a how Switzerland became a country even though the ethnic groups have only a few things in common when it grew even when the ethnolinguistic groups started having nation states of their own (Germany, France, Italy)?
Lincoln really screwed the pooch hanging those folks. That unified more tribes in the end out on the Central Plains, which wasn't a bad thing for them don't get me wrong. White people running the U.S. government since the start wanted slavery since Britain was letting go of it. There was no civilized coherent policy of the white Europeans from the begining with all of the tribes. Broken treaty, after broken treaty, was the norm as each new stage of gas lighting away their land and rights became the white destiny.
And of course, how all this turned would eventually pave the way for the formation of the state of Oklahoma (part 2, please!), and from where I am typing this now. . Thanks for the wonderful new video today, History Matters!
History gives perspective and reasons of why we got rid of something in the first place, for example the new wave of the no no party (Mr no no mustache from Germany) people don't even know history because that ideology lead directly to ww2 and the deaths of over 80 million people (some estimates put it well above 120 million)
History is complicated, oh and when you're ripped apart by a settler colonial nation you need to participate in a bit of slavery for a slight increase in food production
Would the Confederate government have offered him and the other tribes of the Indian territory any significant rewards had they won? Genuinely curious.
@@SouthernGentleman I guess I meant more in terms of land claims. The Cherokee were from the North Carolina/Tennessee/Georgia border area after all, and the other members of the 5 Civilized Tribes were all from the South. Did the Confederate government offer to repatriate them to their homelands?
Aaron Marks The Confederacy sent Albert Pike to negotiate with the Native Americans and formed alliances. They signed fair treaties and these treaties, the tribes severed their relationships with the federal government, much in the way the southern states did by seceding from the Union. They were accepted into the Confederates States of America, and they sent representatives to the Confederate Congress. The Confederate government promised to protect the Native American’s land holdings and to fulfill the obligations such as annuity payments made by the federal government.
One part not mentioned-the Dakota Uprising of 1862. The Dakota tribes in eastern Dakota territory and western Minnesota took advantage of the chaos and attacked white settlements. The Union ended up sending troops and the end result was the defeat of the Dakota and the hanging of 38 Dakota men in Mankato, MN. This was the largest mass execution in US history.
As a Minnesotan who's into history, I'm all too familiar with _that_ war. Even among the Dakota it was controversial; many figured they'd probably still lose and end up even worse off.
As a Cherokee myself I can say this is pretty accurate, but I have some critiques. Really all it is is that not all native Americans sided with the confederacy the keetoowah tribe which is an offspring of the Cherokee was a major union tribe which made a civil war in the Cherokees which has made ripples to this day, but that's really all. Also its way-tie not what-tie 😅
I like involving Native American history in more American History topics. They're sort of portrayed as a bastion of good will at all times who ultimately always got the shaft due to their noble sacrifices and hated the Americans, but that's a really simplified over-exaggeration. It detracts from their rich history, which is just as diverse, beautiful, and horrific as European and Asian history with all sorts of legends and massacres of their own. Even when European settlers arrived and Americans ended up the nation on land, tribes still fought to have primary access to these colonials in order to create preferential trade routes. For some, this lead to the lessening of the burden to hunt sparse resources, and for others was a way to stock up on more advanced military hardware in order to dominate in inter-tribal warfare. That "first-contact" is an entire chapter in history that is incredibly fascinating to me especially from the tribal side.
*Amerinds. Paleo-men were the actual native Americans displaced by the migrating "native americans" that they are called today. Archaeology doesn't give a shit about wokeness
Appreciate a topic on this subject just wish it was longer literally only covered part of the Cherokee, the part that fought with the south Edit: yes I'm a card carrying choctaw, would you do a video of the codetalkers? The choctaw code talkers of WWI
And refused to give them land and resources as part of a treaty they had with the US government & kicked them out of the tribes to keep from sharing it with them. And didn't free them when they were told to. The uploader purposely didn't mention all that.
@@j.j.9511 No, he didn't mention it because it wasn't really relevent (and you can't fucking mention everything in a short youtube video). I mean they have slaves either way, their land was taken from them either way. You acting like this little bit of triva changes anything.
You totally left out the Sioux wars against the US in 1863-65. Resulting in the forced use of confederate prisoners of war to fight the Natives in Minnesota / Iowa. The losses pushed the Sioux even further west.
@@tr1084 the actual number of blacks who fought for the south is very very low. I think it was like less than 50. This was because most southern leaders and generals were against the idea of arming blacks. It wasnt until the south was about to lose that they changed their minds but it was too late. Any blacks in the confederate military did not see combat and were relegated to menial tasks
Mark 0:22. Before I view the video, as a Chickasaw Citizen, I feel compelled to state that, I never understood why, that just because CC thought that he had found India rather than North America, that calling the native population, "Indians", would be allowed to last for centuries, with the correction efforts being only a relatively recent movement. Also, since I did view the former "NBC" sitcom, "Outsourced", I wonder how actual Indians, feel about it. On a related note, I know that the citizens or residents of, Lesbos Isle, who are called, "Lesbians", resent that others use that term to refer to, or to describe, female homosexuals, and want people to stop doing so. But in the sitcom, the Indians asked their Caucasian boss, why Native Americans, resent being called, "Indians". Without thinking through his answer, he replied that it is a derogatory term, and that hurt his employees' feelings. Well, actually, people need to use labels to identify everything. So if you are going to use them, just have the courtesy to use the correct ones, and also, don't use labels as insults to people that aren't such, so that the people who are such, won't have their feelings hurt! 🤔
When you really think about it, everyone in history at one point or other did something horrible to someone else. No one country is truly innocent or humane really.
Well, many countries have existed for less than 200 years, mostly since just WW2. Some of those haven't had a chance to have their governments do horrible things yet. Pretty much everyone has many, many ancestors who did terrible things though.
@@AlexanderRM1000 just because a country may be only a couple hundred years old doesnt mean the people are that young, most of the peoples who make up said countries have been around ALOT longer than just 200 years, bohemians(modern day czech republic) have been around since atleast the time of Charlemagne (as he wrote about such peoples in that particular area) and most likely longer, so the czech Republic is very very young but the people that make up that Republic have been around for at a minimum 1200 years
@@justnoob8141 Not polish either, they had their very powerful times as a massive country for a few centuries, exerting that power on other people groups around them and inside their borders. Silesians got the same treatment as Poland and then some, passed around like a blunt in the middle ages. Sorbians have, to my knowledge, never had any kind of polity, and been just germanized forever.
In Argentina, during the cup of 2002 when Brazil faced England, a sport's magazine run the cover "Que Percan Los Dos" "May both lose". I get a feeling that the natives felt like that...
Aside from Native descendants being so passive aggressive, I don't understand why European Americans are so defensive in these topics. Look no one is, or atleast shouldn't be guilt tripping you. This is all in the past. I personally want our people to be friends, we are currently in the same boat, we are fighting to preserve our people's essence.
Because our school books and curriculum are written by northerners who turn the civil war in a battle between good vs evil than seeing that it's actually complicated and not that way at all.
I am a native and one of my history teachers was talking about another history teacher who wasn’t native say he doesn’t talk about the thing to do with natives because “it doesn’t matter”.
Are You British Mate? just asking great video as always and very interesting because it's quite an overlooked subject. I wonder what did the European Power (All of them not only France and Britain) do during the American Civil War. I mean did the Russian Empire, Spian, Austria and the Ottoman Empire say anything or did they just sat there and watch. Also South America How did South America countries respond to the war?
Ahmed Muawia I can answer 2 of your questions. I don’t know about Spain Austria or the Ottomans but the Russians stayed neutral but secretly gave supplies to the Union because they were afraid of British influence and possible annexation of there Alaskan colony. As for how the South American nations felt I know that prior to the Civil War the American government was on the brink of war with Peru over Islands with a large amount of fertilizer (in the form of bird excrement) so they were probably very relieved to not have to fight them.
@@garrettallen7427 ohh yeah the Cold War thing (Before the Popular Reboot) between Russia and Britain also known as the Great Game I think? anyhow they also may have done it only to stick it for Britain for fighting them with Ottomans and French.
“These divisions ripped many tribes apart, and led to many families fighting for both sides.” When it comes to the American Civil War, this was true of everyone. As they say: the floor here is made of floor.
Wow, native american tribes owned slaves and fought for the confederacy. You never hear that when they talk about "we stand on native land and we must honor them" during graduations and such these days.
What you forget to mention was some Native Americans would have been old enough to have been apart of the trail of tears so they would have had deep hatred for the U.S.
It's not accurate to say that the Five Civilized Tribes all sided with the Rebs. For instance, the Cherokee leadership alternated between trying to stay out of it and trying to support the Union. The Rebs armed the faction of the tribe that was friendly to them, and these waged guerrilla war against the rest of the Cherokee, pushing the pro-Union leaders into exile. Some pro-Rebel members sought to take advantage of this by calling for a special election to make Watie Principal Chief, but this was illegitimate. He had neither popular nor legal support in his claim to the title.
My girlfriend accidentally clicked “dislike” and it said “feedback shared with the creator.” Just letting you know she did not do this on purpose. We very much liked the video.