When Native Americans Made Armour from Chinese Coins #shorts #history #fyp #documentary

[SunwardRanger]

People do tend to forget that the various nations of people that inhabited the Americas weren't all the same. There was a lot of variation in everything from technology to art and culture to daily way of life. Some were the nomadic hunters in teepees that the stereotype depicts, others had walled cities, agriculture, trade, and even empires of their own. To reduce them all to a bunch of powerless pushovers isn't just historically inaccurate, it really does a disservice to these people and their accomplishments.

[dillonbruyer]

So do we have examples of what they wouldve traded? Did the Russians act as middle men between China and the Natives? or did they just find and use materials washed up from ship wrecks.

[gfox-ckxx]

Fun fact: due to shared eastern orthodox faith, the Tlingit and Serbian American communities in parts of Alaska are quite close, with several church buildings being financed by both groups' community leaders

[Sinhei]

*No different colour rectangles fighting each other?*

[devinpowers]

Yes! More Native American content, please!

[lifelessperson]

It’s amazing how Byzantine coins were prized as burial goods by the Chinese and Qing coins were made into Native American body armour.

[adamponcho]

Back in 91 I was told by 90 year elder who said that the Ouiletute tribe in La Push WA did trade with Chinese and Russians fisherman long before her time. They had a name for them in their language...

[Reformedhillbilly]

I love this. More about the history and peoples of the Pacific Northwest would be amazing. They are so often overlooked.

[hopper]

I found a Chinese coin (the same type that you used as an example) metal detecting in Iowa, which is totally bizarre, as the oldest coins you can hope to find there are typically from the 1830s, and those are really rare and the Chinese coin is from the 1730s- 1790s, and I was wondering if it could have possibly came from when the Russians came to America and traded those coins with the Native Americans, who then traded them to tribes further inland.

[sanjeevdas]

Really I didn't know that's surprising

[Jaxck]

The ceremonial button blankets of the Pacific Northwest Nations use to this day navy cloth with deep crimson trim. They’re also made of heavy wool, exactly the kind used by sailors in the pre-American period. This is because this cloth came from the Russian navy originally. A great example of how the mundane from one culture can become part of the profound cultural tradition of another.

[RoccosVideos]

Ah yes, trade, the main reason not to war with your neighbors then.

[bobcharlie]

CAN WE PLEASE THIS IN OUR SCHOOLS!! The Native Americans of the Americans are a huge part of world history. They deserve so much more attention.

[PeterStanton]

Gunalchéesh for putting this video out!

[seanpoore]

God I love periods of cultural exchange!!

[RuffinItAB]

Ive always wondered how north America would look if 90+% of indigenous peoples weren't wiped out by disease before they had the chance to defend their homelands and develop their own nations with the interchange of technology and ideas between them and eastern peoples.

[YounRangr]

We need more history on our native folk. Too much had been suppressed by the US and Canadian education system.

[lerneanlion]

This short video alone blown my mind! This new knowledge is so awesome!

[andrehenrique]

Please talk more about this subject in a video about contact of native americans and Asias's cultures.

[svntn]

native-americans are one of the least understood people out there. i really wish our culture wasn’t destroyed like it was. I love the little bit of culture we have left and can only imagine the beauty of what my ancestors were really like.