Native American reservations explained

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[GeographyNow]

Glad to have this done this much needed reference video for the upcoming USA episode! Have you ever been to a native American reservation? If not, check them out! You can learn so much from them.

[tomwalsh]

In Ireland we remember the substantial donation by the Choctaw tribe to the starving Irish during the great famine in 1847. A monument stands in Co Cork commentating this grateful deed . Always remembered

[onewhoisanonymous]

I currently live on a native American property 55 km or about 35 miles away from Russia. We are closer to Russia than to mainland Alaska. I hesitate to call it a reservation because under Alaskan law, it’s not considered a reservation because it is privately owned by the natives cooperation. I am a teacher on this island.

[antons]

Since childhood, I've been fascinated by the Native American cultures. Thank you for dedicating a full special to it

[EdgeXXI]

Greetings from the Tohono O'odham Nation, number three on your list of largest reservations. Our name means Desert People. The names Arizona and Tucson are derived from our language, Arizona meaning small spring and Tucson meaning black mountain. Thanks for your video.

[ixlzz]

As a law enforcement officer in Oklahoma, in my county, I had to be cross-deputized into three different tribal police forces so that I could respond to calls for service (or backup) in certain areas.

[WizardToby]

Many of our states, rivers, and landforms in the US have Native American originated names as well (like Mississippi, Minnesota, Wyoming, Missouri, Connecticut, etc). They named all these areas and the land before the Europeans showed up.

[hexkobold]

I'd love to see videos like this for indigenous / ethnic minority populations in other countries like Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Australia, Russia, China, etc!

[IndigenousHistoryNow]

Another important factor of US-Indigenous history to mention is the boarding school system. For around a century, indigenous children were forced to go to boarding schools where the US attempted to forcibly eradicate all aspects of Indigenous cultures. There was a lot of abuse and neglect, a lot of kids died. This era is why so many languages have so few speakers and also why so many Indigenous communities struggle with inter generational trauma

[vertigo]

I've always seen these across my google maps procrastination sessions and never really understood how the whole system worked, thank for explaining it so clearly. Can't wait for the US episode!! ❤❤

[jacklazzaro]

Adding on to the language section, there’s been attempts to revive critically endangered native languages.
Jessie Little Doe Baird is a Wampanoag linguist who has been reviving the Wampanoag language since the 90’s, and it’s seen some steady success.

[anonimni]

Native Americans are really missunderstood people and im happy you're making a video about this

[GreenChicken]

As a Native American, I'm glad someone is teaching others what we live on now.

[MAVJ]

I served in the Marines with a lot of Native Americans, and they were some of the best guys. All had crazy stories, could give/take a joke, and were completely open to any and all questions we had about their cultures and perspectives of the world.

[Deathskull]

Honestly I would've appreciated a full episode on this. Native American culture is diverse and frankly quite a bit more ancient than the USA itself. As it's not as mainstream, I really would like to know as much as possible, but the book recommendation was nice as well:)

[mxss]

I lived and worked in the Chickasaw Nation for years. During the initial covid times, the casino I worked at had to close for almost two months. In spite of them being closed, they didn’t lay anybody off and I kept still got paid, including getting 80% of what the average tip pool was. Consider my hourly pay was almost entirely consumed by taxes, tips were almost my entire income.

[sdrawkcabUK]

Also often overlooked in American history are the monuments left by ancient native Americans eg. Cahokia mounds, the snake mound in Ohio, Pueblo houses in SW etc.

[elijahrodriguez]

Hey Barby, my name is Hayden Rodriguez and I just wanna sy thank you for taking the time to make this video and educating more people about the indigenous peoples of the US. I would really like to see a series where you cover maybe not every reservation but a few major reservations individually.

[than]

The Hopi trying to reclaim land from the Navajo Reservation has been a long legal battle for over half a century now, so I'm glad it got mentioned. And interestingly the ancient Apache-Navajo started their migration from Upper White River region of Alaska following a volcanic eruption from Mount Churchill.

[chrisclancy]

Also, the Inuit languages are often seen on signs in Nunavut, Canada. The letters and symbols are really cool looking