10 Things You Didn't Know Were Invented By Native Americans
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- Beyond their rich cultural heritage, Native Americans possessed an innate genius for innovation, crafting tools and techniques that not only ensured their survival but also shaped the course of history. You might be surprised to learn that many of these inventions continue to enrich our lives today, used by people worldwide.
In this captivating episode, we will unveil the top ten Native American inventions that have stood the test of time and are integral to our modern world. Join us as we delve into the fascinating stories behind these creations, from the artistry of crafting canoes to the practicality of snow goggles, and so much more.
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Corn was not the "bane" of their agricultural economy. A bane is a nemesis, or a hated condition.
You are correct, but I'm pretty sure the non-human narrator meant "boon" not "bane". Cheers.
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Yes it's about the same as listening to NPR. LOL@@michaelheurkens4538
@michaelheurkens4538 corn was part of their down fall, as a lack of protein hurt them.
Yes, I'd say it was the "backbone" of their agriclatural economy.
I'm Saginaw Chippewa and just love hearing about our ancestors
You call them inventions, we call them gifts from the Great Spirit.
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Love that!
Canoes were not just made from hollowed out logs. Your information about that was very accurate. However, the Eastern tribes, such as Ojibway and Mohawk, fashioned canoes from birchbark attached to a wooden frame and waterproofed using a mixture of pine resin, oak charcoal, and fat mixed together and heated to create a flexible but permanent coating that could be applied to seams and holes of the canoe's hull. Large canoes based on that design were used by the Voyageurs to traverse the waterways of N. America in the fur trade.
Also, your pictures of "bunk beds" were not found in teepees in the west, but in the longhouses of the Iroquois and Algonquian tribes. These longhouses, created out of logs, branches and hides would house several families who would sleep in the beds that lined the walls. In winter fires for warmth and cooking would be lit in the centre of the longhouse under a smoke hole. Normally, the elderly and other disabled people would occupy the bottom bunks and the younger fit people the top. In a teepee people slept on the floor in bedding made of buffalo skins and blankets. There were no beds in these structures because the nature of the teepee was that it could be dismantled and moved from place to place as the Western plains tribes were mainly nomadic, following the herds of buffalo, and other ungulates.
Goldenseal wasn't just used for dental care, it was used for colds and other respiratory tract infections, hay fever, ulcers, and digestive upsets such as diarrhea and constipation. (It is still used for these purposes today by some people.)
I would suggest that the creators of this presentation didn't do their "homework" very well seeing how much of their information was not only wrong, but poorly presented as many of the pictures did not represent the spoken words.
Holy crap u had that much to say 😂😂😂😂😂 if u see my comment then do me a favor and have yourself a good day and god loves u so much he sent his only child to die for u
When I was five or six (early 1960's) we in Britain knew native American's made birch bark canoes but didn't hear about dug out canoe's until much later.
There were a lot of westerns on British TV in 1960's also cartoon and puppet shows, the kids programs were often slightly better researched?
Some (I've seen Wagon Train, Have Gun Will Travel, The Rifleman and Rawhide) are still being replayed on US TV
Until space program came along 'Cowboys and Indian's' was a favourite game so even when inaccurate, we got a 'history lesson'
Thank you for sharing this information , which I'm aware of though not from the Americas , your info is accurate - more so than the creaters appears to be .
@@davidarundel6187 I wrote a paper on the indigenous peoples for my university anthropology class about 30 years ago. Some things stick.
We may have to use some of the indigenous survival skills when green energy ruins our electric grids.
I'm Ojibwa Indian and proud of it
I am of Native decent myself not full but registered with a Haudenosaunee Nation in Canada & proud has well
I do not know why you should not be proud of being who you are
good on ya cuz!
what ever
I'm white and proud of it.
The oldest canoe type boat discovered so far is the Pesse canoe, which is believed to be the world's oldest-known boat and certainly the oldest-known canoe. It was discovered in 1955 during the construction of the Dutch A28 motorway, south of the village of Pesse in Hoogeveen through what was a peat bog. The boat is a dugout-style canoe measuring 298 centimeters long and 44 centimeters wide, and it was formed from a single Scots pine log. Carbon dating indicates that the boat was constructed during the early Mesolithic period between 8040 BC and 7510 BC
Exactly. Half of this video is bullshit
WOW
My Pake is from Friesland.
My grandfather wss raised on cherokre reservation in nc.
.he could go into the forest and find native herbs for many common illneses . These plants and herbal cures handed down through the tribe for years
Many of the plants they used weren't native. Many came from Europe and weren't used till after the Europeans came
@@mrsme33-cy7lfhow do you know that? Which plants originated in Europe?
@@jbfiveash636 I'd have to go back and check thru the many articles and videos I've seen to answer which plants. I was surprised myself when I seen many plants, medicinal included were not native to Americas
My Nanny was a country woman. She knew what grasses we could safely eat and natural mint.
@@jbfiveash636certainly not corn, potatoes, tomatoes, quinoa, certain squashes, various delicious beans (pintos, haricot, lima, black, great northern, etc.) blueberries, cranberries, raspberries or avocados.... 😂😂😂😂 if you like or eat any of these foods.... oh no, you're eating like.... them!😏😂🤣🤣👍🏼😎💯 🇺🇸 🪶👍🏼😂
I was intrigued with all of them. Thank you for the education.
Finally a video that is accurate regarding indigenous peoples
AMAZING.. I DIDN'T KNOW ANY OF THAT... ALL THOSE PEOPLE ARE TRULY AMAZING... THANKU
I have reverted back to my Cherokee heritage in lots of ways. Medicinally, Spiritually, simple foods, herbs , wild and homegrown. I am living simplier life all the way around. I fill my needs not my wants. I am not materialistic. Thank you for this look in to beneficial living. Blessings
This is truly amazing that something we all still use today was developed by our Native Americans.
Hoogeveen is in the Netherlands, not North America.
One should read the book, "Indian Givers" by Jack Weatherford, a University of Minnesota Professor." How The Indians of the Americas Transformed The World." Great read. m
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Owe a depth of gratitudeee to the native American ideas.
“Bane” of their agriculture is a negative reference, it says it’s a distressful, frustrating or annoying aspect of a thing, that can’t be what you meant....
Try "boon"
Narrator frequently mispronounces words, often only once or twice, before deciding/stumbling upon the accepted pronunciation of the word. First noticed in #7, "Mouth Wash," the most glaring instance is "or-all (oral) health", and "debet (debt) of gratitoodie(gratitude?). And #9, about the use of bunk beds in "tye-pea's" floor space. Very odd, since he pronounced the word correctly in the previous sentence. This must be an artificial intelligence algorithm trying to learn correct pronunciation on the fly. I guess text-to-speech voices have really improved since HAL's debut in 2001: A Space Odyssey. I suppose it's cheaper and quicker than using a hired narrator, or simply doing it yourself. Lol
@@j.g.campbell3440 The part that drives me up the wall is when he stops in the middle of a phrase. I assume going to the next page or reloading the buffer.
Some good comments correcting some mistakes but but the presentation wasn’t bad at least it showed respect for the native Americans
Don't forget, Beef Jerky that we eat today has it's roots in Native American origin. The jerked Bison meat to make it safe to eat. The sun's rays killed the spoilage causing microrganisms we just give them credit enough for things
Usually if something was invented in one part of the world, it was likely simultaneously invented in another part. For example, the jet engine was invented both by Britain and Nazi Germany. I even heard in school about how injection molding of objects was invented by one African nation as well as Europeans. As the old principle goes, if you can think of it, theoretically anyone else could as well.
I know about the canoe & mocasines, but the rest was nice to know.
Thank you for your wonderful presentation!!! I Love it very much & will rewatch it❤❤❤
Thank you for this very informative video, because people need to know where many of todays inventions originated. Not everyone that claims inventions actually invented them.
Your right the claims are made by someone today a lot of this stuff has the smell of woke
Canoes were in ancient Europe as well. Also, a flint knife from France at the Topper site on the East Coast was left there 19,000 years ago. And the Windover Pond site in Florida was loaded with European bodies. The Younger Dryas event changed things in the Americas. Now they try DESPERATELY to cover up the European history here. Typical.
Something else they invented was the inner liner for a tipi. Tipis were used around the world, but the North Americans developed the inner liner which lies on the ground and wraps up the side walls to 3 or 6 feet depending on how much insulation they need. Air would enter from the exterior skin which did not extend to the ground. Since the inner liner was on the ground, the air rose up between the skin and liner and kept going to remove smoke through the top vent.
The most interesting to me is the syringe. Most of them I didn’t know about, except for the obvious, but the syringe just blows my mind. I know they were intelligent and had to invent many things, so I’m not shocked at what they invented. Thank you my Ancestors. 😊
I hit the emoji by mistake
Isn't funny how most people with European names proclaim to be Pocahontas. A big lie spread through the sixties!.
They didn't invent the syringe... Feel free to google it, this guy is an idiot trying to attribute things to natives when they had nothing to do with them. They also didn't invent mouthwash
@@bettynewton6160 The three dots on the right have an edit button.
Excellent video I learned a lot of interesting things from this thank you thumbs up from me
Yes, you are right. We learned a lit of this stuff in school as kids.
I enjoyed them all.
I liked each of them but are there not more?? Just curious 😊. Loved the video and the education. I hope to see more. Soon 😊
All very good, back in the day. Times change.
I'm supposed to have American Indian on my mom side, she grew up in Southern Illinois
Corn was their "bane" of their agricultural community? Do you know what bane means?
Overall, great video. Some of then I knew, some not
Very cool and informative thank you
Some of these are actually invented by other indigenous cultures from different parts of the world, what freaks me out was the round boat that some indigenous tribes had it is is similar to the round boat used in Egypt
Europe had these boats and canoes as well. Egyptian artifacts have been found in Scotland and Ireland.
good video, very interesting!!
They did not invent the syringe either. The syringe can be traced as far back as ancient Egypt. They didn't invent the canoe either, and there have been many types of dream catchers in the form of amulets and idols that were supposed to protect the person from nightmares or the underworld, etc. As far as moccasins go, leather shoes date back as far as humans do and vary from region and terrian.
i didn't think so, proud Native here but can't take credit for that.
Thank you.
Willow bark was known about in Europe too.
Mi'kmaq were known for building durable but light canoes using boards to build strong structures with birch boards for structure for canoes. Then, using birch bark for exetrior of the canoe. multipurposes. For travel, fishing and hunting wales and other wildlife from the water. 😊
The Taino-Arawaks for the Caribbean created sophisticated seaworthy large canoes that allowed them to colonize all the islands of the Caribbean. The word CANOE is a Taino word.
Absolutely, the Taino, Caribs or Arawaks were a seafaring people that the historians never mention. I read one researcher state that Taino DNA was found as far north as the Carolinas in coastal tribes. They were sailors like the Polynesians, Caribbean people that were originally from the Amazon sailed all over the Gulf, Caribbean and the Atlantic and Florida. The Taino warned the Florida tribes about the Europeans and when the Spanish landed in Floria the natives were ready, it was the Florida tribes (Calusas) that killed many Spanish plus the Governor. There’s a lot of historical facts that are not taught and even hidden.
Thank you!
As an Iroquois, you're welcome. To expand on your telling of the Dreamcatcher legend...they were hung over the bed, yes, but on a wall which would be bathed in the rays of the Dawn which would destroy the bad dreams stuck in the web. As for bunk beds...tipis didn't have them but they were common in a longhouse. The tribes of the Plains were nomadic and therefore had to be able to pack up and move and horses need to take more essential things. To accommodate a larger family the tipi floor plan was larger. Tribes who were hunter/gatherers, such as the Seneca, had longhouses which were permanent dwellings and could afford multiple tiers for sleeping.
TY for the VIDEO 😊 PEACE
The Clovis point yep that's interesting look into it.
Moccasins were sewn together with sinew, most likely from the same animal the leather came from. Plant material? So many corrections in the comment section. I considered subscribing, but not after visiting the comments.
"Gratitudy" lol 🤦🏼♂️
Thank you
Actually the three sisters method comes from mesoamerica over 5600 years ago and then was adopted through native america. The first canoe and dug outs can from the Netherlands 8200 years ago. So the orgins are Northern Europe. The oldest syringes actually goes back to the Egypians as do bunk beds. Willow bark has been used by many cultures, the Assyrians of the Sumerian period where among the first that we know of. Not to rain on your paraid, but most of these things predate North American. The sun glass, dream catchers, and moccosins are indigenous...
Agreed, I was taught, as a child, that in the Great Lakes area birch bark canoes were unique to the Native Americans, but dugouts were found around the world in various cultures, so not unique to the Americas. I'm not sure who could claim the first use in history. Also, I do believe the bunk bed formation was used in European ships prior to contact with North America.
Yeah it was wild hearing 1000ad for agriculture. I instantly remembered how in the 1800s American Christians were robbing graves and still slaughtering and displacing "savages" as the measured their skulls and what not. No way of ever knowing the full history because of it. this video was about as accurate as Graham Hancock or Von Daniken.
Meso america is the same as native american both north south and Central America indigenous people dnt have lines in the dirt my Cherokee friend smh 🤦♂️
@@prof113 Birchbark canoes and dugouts are constructed in totally different ways.
ship's use hammocks made out of sail's@@prof113
Mesoamerica is native america
I can’t recall which tribe he was from, but while we were on vacation an American Indian was giving a talk. I do recall that he emphatically said that dream catchers are a fairly new product that has nothing to do with Indian culture.
Bead work, clothing from animal skins, pelican for long lasting food used mostly for long distance journeys. This is amazing. Making Jerry is another although this has been done for centuries.
Pelican? Do you mean pemmican?
@sarahstrong7174 yup, thanks
Also jerky.
@@sarahstrong7174yes
Cultures around the world did all these things.
when I was a kid I read that a canoe could be traded for a wife I was amazed... I guess the work going into making a canoe may be considered that a man is hardworking and patient. It was not the actual canoe but it was the effort made that allowed a young man a wife
I learned from a linguistics professor I had that aspirin literally means “headache tree.” Moreover, willow isn’t exclusive to the Americas, which means Native Americans had actually beaten the world to the discovery of its medicinal value; not just happened to have access to an herb that existed nowhere else in the world. I’ve always found the discovery of medicinal herbs interesting. Who just looks at a tree and thinks “Imma strip its bark and brew it into a tea!” or “Imma put that in a pipe and smoke it!” I’m aware that the process of medical herb discovery is more complicated than that, but the notion of someone being all hung-ho let’s drink bark tea is pretty amusing.
I suggest that people perhaps inadvertently consumed something that was a bit trippy, liked it and thought to themselves, Wow that was trippy I wonder what the next thing does, until they had smoked everything in sight.
Same process for infused vegetable matter.
Props to all the hominids that came before us!
They would have had some sort of help from nature , as what insects or birds eat , people should be able to consume , starting in small amounts úntil releif is obtained .
@@jeremyashford2145Yeshua 's Holy Spirit can guide people to know what is previously unknown to man. It doesn't have to be trial and error or mere happenstance.
@@davidarundel6187nature and God's Holy Spirit can lead us if we are seeking Him.
There is nobody like the native Americans in their knowledge of herbal remedies.
Fascinating. By the way, the first image of canoes is not native American, it is Indigenous Maori of New Zealand
My wife and I planted Lacota squash one year. We had em everywhere! 😋
The (Anglo) writers and narrator don't know the meaning of "Bane": The first piece claims "Corn was the bane of their agricultural economy." "Bane" means awful destructive ruin-er.
Very interested in American Indian culture
The three sisters started in Mesoamerica , way before the tribes further North started to use this method.
I still have a few Native American blankets. They have stood the test of time. While driving from the East Coast to the West Coast, was able to purchase a Dream chasers. Its amazing how there craftsmanship is so much better than commercial products. I have always like sandals but not I hope I can purchase a few pairs of Moccasins. The USA owes them more respect now than ever before. Anything made from natural materials is better than plastics. I donate to Native Americans charities as a way of respecting their heritage.
I learned many new things. Imagine if those European fore-conquerors never came to the western hemisphere.
ALL VERY INGENIOUS
Pizza, I read years ago that the American Indians had a dish of meat and vegetables on a flat bread much like pizza today. The idea was expanded upon by the Europeans and cheese was added but the original concept was the Indian flatbread with meat and veggies.
1. Companion gardening was used throughout Europe before coming to America but using a lot more sisters than just 3 sisters..
2. Europeans made boats and canoe like boats long before coming to America
3. Dream catchers are nothing more than trinkets like a rabbit's foot.
4. People around the world have used saps as chewing gum since before recorded history.
5. Moccassins are merely a name, leather shoes have been since leather was figured out.
6. Another thing that was also created by natives of Europe as well to prevent snowblindness.
7. As they said all peoples had their methods of mouth care and mouthwash that were just as antiseptic.
8. These "syringes" were more for pagan ritual than medical use.
9. Bunk beds have been common through the world. But they were never used in Tee Pees but Log long houses.
10. Aspirin was derived from willow trees in Europe and Asia as well.
Canoes! I'm sure you would find them all over the world
Many of the comments are more accurate than this vid.
The People have been misrepresented and disrespected far too often.
Personally, I would like to have more Native Americans active in Congress and in State Politics and maybe healing would begin on this planet. We scream our Leaders are too old, yet the People knew the value of our Elders as do other cultures on earth. Respect and appreciation were important lessons taught to their young.
Sadly, people of the USA today do not appreciate what we have in this great country, only what greed demands.
This is when society is corrupted, the loss of respect and appreciation is replaced with personal greed and the lust for power that takes over people's lives.
The truth is so underrated, yet it is the first step to freedom.
You forgot the hammock! Still used today all over the world.
There were bull boats as well that were round and were probably made from hides fixed onto a frame of wood and were only about waist deep at most with those and only had one paddle to maneuver them
Cleaning the dreams out of the dream catcher at the end of the month is a huge pain .
Especially the wet dreams.
"indigenous native Americans"??? "corn was the bane of their agricultural economy"??? The first is excessively redundant. And to paraphrase The Princess Bride, 'bane' very definitely doesn't mean whatever you think it means.
I wasn't 2 minutes in before I knew you couldn't write a script. Looking at the other comment I see you can't do research. Back to the drawing board, pal.
I was going to mention that "bane" was used wrong. Glad someone else did.
Thank You for this. It would help a lot to equalize the mid and high frequencies for the Narrator, to make the track less harshly pitched
How about pemmican? I thought for sure, that would have been mentioned.
I agree, pemmican was a mainstay for winter for many tribes.
I also take exception to dreamcatchers, which were invented in the 1970s as a tourist trade item. The entire background story on them is pure fabrication.
Sounds like these tribes need some Royalties .
They also invented the sewing needle, ceramic bowel, blankets, boots, hair bands, and jackets.
Very cool.
Nonsense. Did the Europeans arrive naked or were they wearing clothes and boots?
hardly , neanderthals had all of that
All of them!
Iroquois 🤙❣️
Don't omit the important contribution of tomatoes, potatoes spicy peppers, maise,juniper berry, pine nuts, and more.
I like how ypu present this video you do a good job not to lose me you seem to know your stuff, there are far too many people out who make stuff up and spread lies as truth I appreciate that you don't. One thing to keep in mind when presenting your materials that although similar all tribes are vastly unique sometimes in small subtle ways my example is the dream catchers almost all tribes have there own version of it maybe not call a dream catchers but the same but good video man thank you for taking the time to research and making this educational and informative
whass wrong biden made you take ya hood off
The oldest canoe type boat discovered so far is the Pesse canoe, which is believed to be the world's oldest-known boat and certainly the oldest-known canoe. It was discovered in 1955 during the construction of the Dutch A28 motorway, south of the village of Pesse in Hoogeveen through what was a peat bog. The boat is a dugout-style canoe measuring 298 centimeters long and 44 centimeters wide, and it was formed from a single Scots pine log. Carbon dating indicates that the boat was constructed during the early Mesolithic period between 8040 BC and 7510 BC
Willow bark was written about in ancient Europe, leather shoes were worn in Europe as well, and canoes have been found in European bogs. Etc etc.
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Great information but the announcer misspronounced some of the words .
This is the most egregious example of internet nonsense I've ever encountered.
LET THE SPIRIT WITH THEE ALL TRIBES
The native Americans were not the only race to "invent" canoes. The Australian aborigines were doing it hundreds of years before the indigenous tribes of America and other countries.
Twelve tribes, knew how to make Canoes, rubber boots also😊 etc,.. Potatoes, toys
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Actually - CORN started out as a GRASS in SOUTH AMERICA over 8 thousand years ago - I was thru selective breeding of the different strains that forced corn to evolve to it's more modern form...Native American tribes were very resourceful. It stands to reason that they would have "created" the same things as other cultures across the globe...
I shut 'er down when they started in on the 'dream catchers' as an 'invention'. Before they could claim witch doctors as an invention.
Apparently Indians must have emigrated to Europe, the Amazon, and Africa to teach people there how to survive. That explains why Europeans were able to survive and get to the Americas by using vastly superior technological boats and equipment that the brilliant superior Indians had not managed to figure out yet?
Canoes were also made on the East Coast tribes.
European farming knows similar to the three sisters. Carrots and Onions get planted besides each other because the carrot fly does not like the onion smell and the same for an onion fly that does not like carrots smell. There is more but i am not a farmer.
That's companionate planting.
The Three Sisters method, planting corn, beans &, squash.
Information
You misused the term “bane” when describing maize (corn).
Fascinating video, to bad it's delivery is ruined by the AI narrator!
Historical records of the bartering and distribution of corn, beans, squash seeds, etc. are never mentioned. How did tribes trade between themselves and others including pioneers acquiring seed.
There were extensive trading networks and trading routes. Some of these routes the now used by US highways.
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Just where would we be without dream catchers or chewing gum?
I enjoy the narrators "creative" pronunciations of common words. Some educated live person might want to edit the audio before publication. I will probably not revisit this site.... Martha....
You'd think they would help Native AmericanTribes more from All they taught invader's of other countries and Just took their Land 😢 To this Day. Some are below poverty 😢😢
Forgot Popcorn.
You forgot the Indian Casinos.
Again, the Australian aborigine would chew on the sap of specific trees to keep their mouths fresh during their long treks between water/food sources.
I can only think of the bow and arrow
Nothing ruins a video quicker than an AI mispronouncing half the words. 😠
Man bro can’t get perfect AI so what I wold like to see you get better AI
And all the misinformation... I bet it was written by AI, too.
This is not AI but rather an automated voicing reader. A true AI presentation would present the same nonsense, if desired, but make the typical viewer think it was the greatest exposition of native American innovations ever seen.
That is the danger of AI.
Oh brother....!