Who are the Appalachian People? Documentary Part 2 

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I don't know a whole lot about the original inhabitants of Appalachia, but my dad has passed down some information he learned from his great grandfather, an Eastern Cherokee who passed down our Deer Clan clanship, some of the Tsalagi language, and stories from his ancestors. One particularly interesting story he passed down regards the mound where our his people's townhouse was built in the Cherokee town of Nikwasi. He stated that the mound had already been there when his ancestors arrived and that it had been made by people who had lived there long before and that they were not an Iroquoian language speaking peoples like we Cherokee were. I wish I had more to share, but that's about all I know in that regard.

My Mom and her family are Appalachian. Even though they are gone now, those roots still run in me. This country is rich in its abuses towards people. I am glad to see the people of Appalachia making a come back in these small towns and not letting the history die. Thank you Josh for this great series! 🙏🏻

Proud Appalachian European American here!

Love you tell where the Appalachia word comes from and the correct way to pronounce it

Thanks for including indigenous and black history

Excellent from every vantage point - a powerful narrative, research-based information, vibrant video and still photography, and, as always, the music. "Vae Victis" is an apt term indeed! (I had to refresh my memory of the meaning...). Very nicely done, Josh!

Olmecs- glad you mentioned them.Quite an advanced and formidable presence in Central America. Terrific history here Josh. Nicely narrated. Video clips are great. Cheers.

Excellent video. We can hear and see how passionate you are about your heritage. Fascinating information, and you are certainly right about the stereotypes. Thank you for the history lesson.

Absolutely loved all of the history in this video!! So much I didn’t even know about. You’re such a beautiful story teller, Josh, truly! 🤎

This was so incredible!! I had no idea about the original inhabitants. GREAT work!!

I have seen many videos about West Virginia and being born and raised there and now 74 years old would love to see all those videos compiled in a library of sorts and more added as time goes on, same apply to Mountain Roots videos. Such as shame to see it all wasted for future generations. God bless.

Great job!! This is incredible. This is history that needs to be told.

Thank you! You have done the Appalachian people a much deserved service! It's SAD how so much of our history was "controlled" by a few in the US.

thank you for endeavoring to tell the true store of my people. may God bless you and your work.

i was born and raised in the appalachia mountains. no matter where i went after turning 18 they knew i was from that area. best folks you will ever meet. i visit couple times a year to see my family which all still live in the mountains. i miss that area way of life is easy and simple (work hard or die hungry ). drugs have destroyed the area i from and was the reason for joining the military and deciding to raise my family else where but it will allways be home

Wow Josh, this was exceptionally good. So clearly well researched and well put together. You've just grown in leaps and bounds since you started the channel. Keep on!! 🥰

Great set of videos Josh! These two are my favorites. Thank you for your hard work and dedication. God bless.

This series is so inspiring,, on a personal level. While I understand a small amount about my German-Irish linages I now understand their is so much more to learn..thanks again Josh..

Wow! This video was awesome! Appalachia has some really rich history. It is so fascinating to learn the early history. Hopefully this video along with all the others will show just how the Appalachia people have been wronged in so many ways and stigmatized unfairly. Thanks for setting the record straight. Keep the videos coming!

Fascinating history. I've watched few these clips on Appalachia thoroughly learned a lot from the clips.

At 4:20 That is Benge Gap Scenic View outside of Big Gap, VA.

Josh! This is such a well done series! This has planted a seed in me to visit the region and explore the history of such a beautiful place! I can tell this is a passion project for you and again, extremely well done!

Another feather in your cap as you continue to bring us superb content about this remarkable region!

Great time to ask if anyone in va Appalachia has any artifact contact information. A stone shovel, unmistakably! Thanks and this is so right on time

Thank you for describing the Appalachian story so well. I found this to be very insightful and gives me a new perspective and renewed appreciation for the region. I grew up on upstate NY and currently live in Western MD for the past 30 years. I have spent a great deal of time in WV and western MD and I absolutely love this region of the US. The people from this area of the country are the roots of what the US is and should still be. Folks that are hard working souls that focus on what is necessary to survive and thrive no matter what comes at them. Kudos to you Josh, this is very well done and informative.

Wow, thank you for documenting the truth. I hope that more and more Americans will find this series and see the truths that have been scrubbed from our history. Thank you so much for what your doing.

Your content is A+. I have learned more in the short time I have been watching your channel than in my entire life about the Appalachia history. I’m native to the Appalachia and live here presently. I admire your passion and the homework you have done to educate the public. It has evoked a interest in me to want to know more. Thank you. I’m going to look at my finances and see if I can become a patron and help you.

Your expansive view of this region is refreshing and engaging. 30 years in KY since age 25. Damn Yankee from VT. The mountains are by far the best part of the Commonwealth.

Thanks M.R.❤️

wow the history of the earlier peoples.

The trail of tears came through the town where I live in Kentucky.😢

Very interesting. Always learning from you. Keep up the great work. Stay safe. God bless you and your family 🙏❤️

Great content. Thanks!

Stay strong

Excellent!

Many Sad Turning Points In This Historical Video, Thanks For Sharing This, Josh ! ATB T God Bless

These are great videos!

Beautiful series - thank you so much!

This is a truly eye-opening video. Thank you for giving us the background and the real story behind this area!

My ancestors were among the first settlers of the mountains from WV to NC. And almost all lived in the family settlements until my grandparents left for work. Sadly my parents and myself were born in the lowland of OH and GA respectively. We’ve maintained ties with the homeland but it is apparent in visiting that, even within a generation, much is lost. And to hear it now, more and more of us have left over the years. It is sad to see such a culture, such a legacy vanish, preserved only in memories, books, and RU-vid videos about our past.

Excellent Josh! The history i'm learning from these videos is fueling my desire to showcase West Virginia even more.

Love your videos!

Your speaking of people like the Olmecs may have answered a question of my heritage. I am mostly Scots/Irish/English/German Appalachia but carry Amerind from Mesoamerican sources as well. My birth family is from Southeast KY and Northeast TN/Western Virginia and has been in the region for a long time. I don't know if any relatives might be watching but my families are the Meades and Robinsons from Pikeville, Pike County, KY and the Faidleys, Feathers, and Hines from Bristol, Bristol County, TN or Bristol, VA.

Very nice and very good narration

I’ve always respected the people of Appalachian but I after this video I got even more respect for them

Hi! from Scotland. Informative video, thanks!

Love this content

Thank you for all the research. I truly find this interesting. I have been working on my family tree. I have found some interesting things about my family.

A thought provoking video, thank you.

Thank you.

Great conclusion Josh. Can’t wait for the TV show.

My daddy was removed from his commuinty of Agge, Tennessee due to the TVA and Norris Lake.

Thanks for sharing ! 👍😎

Bravo 👏

When I was young my family went on vacation to Douglas Lake in Tennessee. My uncles were friends with a man we called Arm. Arm was missing one of his and had a prosthetic which had two hooks for a hand. He was a great guy. Unfortunately, the government took this elderly veterans' house and land. He fought but lost everything and because he wouldn't accept their fair market assessment of pennies on the dollar, he received nothing for his property. He died living with his daughter after having owned that land all his adult life. He had inherited it if I remember right when he was in his 20's so over 50 years.

My Moms side is from southeast KY (Bell county). I was raised in Atlanta, but that the pleasure of visiting KY for the summer, when I was 17. It was quite an experience, to say the least. Some of the best people I’ve ever met live there. This was over 30 years ago, prior to the drug epidemic (aside from the harmless weed). If the sh*t ever hits the fan, I think these strong, independent people of the Appalachians will fare quite well, compared to the city folks.

Love this journey bro.

I hope you go far brother

Thanks!

I loved hearing the history of Appalacia. I'm fascinated with learning more about the civilization before the Native Americans.

You are doing a great service pointing out that genetics and glacial history defy the common wisdom! As to black Appalachians and diversity, I know black hillbillies, Lebanese Hillbillies, and Italian Hillbillies!

I’m proud to be called “Hill Billy.” We are the most self reliant and most independent people in the United States. What’s not to be proud of?

Curious if you discovered that Indian tribes were the original slave owners of this region? Great documentary!!

You need to spend more time up here in the northern Appalachians, although you are beginning to understand West Virginia. Come up to the upper Ohio Valley and you will find Ulster Scots like my ancestors followed by virtually every possible ethnicity seeking work in the mills much like the miners in the south. The West Virginia Department of Mines, now Miner’s Health, Safety, and Training used to survey the ethnicity of miners and publish it in their Annual Reports, interesting reading. I know some who think the state lacks diversity and is all white, but the population is diversity merged, sometimes into individuals. As to African Americans and European Americans working together you don’t care who digs you out of a roof fall or saves you from falling into a crucible of molten steel and you are likely to become their friend for life!

My ancestors are not backwards or or dumb like in the movies

All you need to do is read the Bible to find out about human history/origins. If you go all the way back, after the flood, it was Noah and his family that started the human race again, so we are descended from them and thereby must be all related in some way. It’s like the gypsies, descended from the Thar Desert in India, emigrated to Europe, Romania, Southern Ireland, but many call them Romani but in fact they have Indian roots

Great videos and very informative, they are important to enlighten and fill in the gaps, to show how people worked and lived, where they came from and the wrongs that have been done....many show how the political grifters reinvent history to suit their own political and finacial needs....but these stories are not just here, they have been going on for centuries...they used very similar tactics in the UK at the start of the industrial revolution and for centuries before hand...almost all the land owned by the rich families including the royal family was stolen by brute force or when families went to the city to seek work their land was simply "acquired" by the rich..leaving families today with absolutely no heritage but yet they own most of the UK..it interesting how they have rezoned the USA into smaller states from 13, as they have done in many countries in Europe..it appears to be the control and parcelling of land by the extremely rich and powerful and always after a major war...with every conflict, the rich have become richer, there are fewer people in charge.... and the poor poorer but the rights and liberties of the working class and beyond are usurted..yet they use race, background, beliefs to divide us all..pretending the care..where there is money, you can expect another grift to launder more and more tax payers money and the theft of not only the peoples land but their heritaged destroyed by labelling it racist, imperialist etc...when did you ever see a guy walk out of a coal mine and announce he was going to sail overseas and conquer other lands...only the rich elites have ever done this...

Appalachian History.....same as australia history of first nations people

GOD will fix this Very soon

Population collapse.... ? We just gone leave out what actually happened and talk about the result...

I don't think you did what you set out to do in the title.

Good SIR, with all due Respect, please never again repeat the negative stereotypical comments, & pictures-- those elements, are NOT worthy of further broadcast. I completely comprehend the need for Truth,& to even inadvertently ' dignify' gossip, & rumor, is to provide them with more attention than they will EVER deserve. Please forgive me--- YOUR WORK IS JUST TOO IMPORTANT!!!!!!!!!

ITS APPALASHIAN !!! YOUR SAYING IT WRONG