Eyewitness Describes The 1762 Native American Embassy to England (Diary of Henry Timberlake)

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    Extracts taken from:
    The Memoirs of Lieut. Henry Timberlake
    (Who Accompanied the Three Cherokee Indians to England in the Year 1762)
    www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/...
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    Music from Epidemic Sound and Artlist
    Stock footage from Videoblocks
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Komentáře • 484

  • @TheOfficialEpicTree
    @TheOfficialEpicTree Před 2 lety +932

    I love how he's like "I can't believe I have to pay for the whole trip myself"

    • @leggonarm9835
      @leggonarm9835 Před 2 lety +59

      He likely ended up in trouble after this after not paying his debts and ended up in debtors' prison, I'd be upset too if I was punished for my good deeds.

    • @Petey0707
      @Petey0707 Před 2 lety +12

      honestly idk what he expected? it was a fantastic thing but he comes off as a bit naïve

    • @iggyharl5780
      @iggyharl5780 Před 2 lety +28

      @@Petey0707 idk if he was an official diplomat then whoever sent him should pay, idk that's how we do it today lol

    • @Jason.cbr1000rr
      @Jason.cbr1000rr Před 2 lety

      @@Petey0707 dmb as minorites and coloured ppl thats why.

    • @regina0273
      @regina0273 Před 2 lety +10

      @@Jason.cbr1000rr mkay

  • @resurrectedstarships
    @resurrectedstarships Před 2 lety +500

    Without money and friends and yet his contribution to history is priceless!

    • @patwest1815
      @patwest1815 Před 2 lety +20

      I would rather have money and friends, history means nothing to the dead, but it was a good story.

    • @leftistethan7346
      @leftistethan7346 Před 2 lety +43

      @@patwest1815 money and friends also mean nothing when you’re dead. Being immortalized in history is a way of extending ones life and/or having an impact on humanities destiny.

    • @Kameeho
      @Kameeho Před 2 lety +11

      @@leftistethan7346 It is neither about having money, friends nor leaving a mark in history that matters. What matters is keeping yourself alive and well.
      Who's to say that Halfdan who carved his name in Hagia Sofia is better than the other Varangians who stood guard at the palace?
      Who's to say that the wealthy Merchant who amassed a great fortune, went by in history without a single mention, despite being maybe the one person who funded a innovation so great it changed mankind forever.
      Who's to say that the a person with friends and connections that spands an entire empire if not beyond, might be the one thing that connected 2 important people destined to change a nation as it was once known.
      Every human being who was alive, was just as important to the past and our future. Simply being noticed doesn't make you any more or less important than anyone else.
      Who knows how many unsung heroes, and villains that might have existed that changed the path of mankind to what we know it today.
      History itself is great. and what makes it better is hearing all these voices of the past have a say in how they lived their lives.
      Be it a highly decorated official, to a simple farmer living out his day to day life.
      And it is what I think makes this channel so great. It simply digs up something that isn't commonly known, and reads it for us, giving a voice a to those who lived in the past, for us in the future to have a bit of insight how their lives were.

    • @kungfutzu3779
      @kungfutzu3779 Před 2 lety +2

      i want to hear how things worked out for him after that

    • @kungfutzu3779
      @kungfutzu3779 Před 2 lety

      an answer to spasjt on this page gives an answer to my question

  • @nateb9768
    @nateb9768 Před 2 lety +147

    As a Cherokee citizen, thank you for taking the time to create this video. Thank you for preserving and sharing our history for future generations.

  • @radarouton4234
    @radarouton4234 Před 2 lety +440

    history is much more interesting than fiction at times

  • @Artur_M.
    @Artur_M. Před 2 lety +431

    This must have been one hell of a experience. Makes you wonder how would Ostenaco (Ustanaqua) and the the other Cherokee describe it themselves.

    • @69SalterStreet
      @69SalterStreet Před 2 lety +20

      I'd love a video comparing and contrasting

    • @kyonkochan
      @kyonkochan Před 2 lety +64

      They should make the modern monarch of the UK smoke a pipe with Cherokee today to make up for a lost opportunity.

    • @pellaxestorba4836
      @pellaxestorba4836 Před 2 lety +11

      @@kyonkochan
      Nobody makes his Highness do any such thing.
      Be thankful His Majesty offers you his hand to kiss.
      Run along now, scoundrel.

    • @ericb-amuur9897
      @ericb-amuur9897 Před 2 lety +7

      I'm Cherokee, there's a reason you see English names in old documents. The ancient Scots and Picts and native Americans are cousins. Read Ancient and Modern Britons.

    • @DarthMatusHolocron
      @DarthMatusHolocron Před 2 lety +10

      @@kyonkochan yeah except the time has passed. There's barely any full blooded Cherokee left. Most of the Nation are dregs like myself, whose last full blooded relative was a grandmother. We go unnamed, the language fading away, the culture holding by its fucking fingernails. I think in all of my home state there were 27 full blooded Cherokee in total.

  • @FrancescoCostaMerlara
    @FrancescoCostaMerlara Před 2 lety +401

    I'm italian and I can't understand very well spoken english. Your channel is amazing, but I think that a lot of people around the world are in my condition. Adding only english subs is enough to improve the comprehension. Thanks!

    • @arrow1414
      @arrow1414 Před 2 lety +67

      If you learn English from voices of the past, you will be far more eloquent than the average Britain or American give how much more elegant the English language was 150 years and more in the past! Perhaps even most of today's modern upper class Posh British can't speak so well.

    • @BOBofGH
      @BOBofGH Před 2 lety +20

      Press CC

    • @FrancescoCostaMerlara
      @FrancescoCostaMerlara Před 2 lety +35

      @@BOBofGH Often the auto-generated subtitles are not so good...

    • @alejandrobolanos4655
      @alejandrobolanos4655 Před 2 lety +18

      @@FrancescoCostaMerlara here they work wonders because the reader is very clear

    • @Awakeningspirit20
      @Awakeningspirit20 Před 2 lety +15

      In all fairness, we native speakers can't quite follow it either lol. I've heard this sort of thing from native speakers of languages I've studied, like Spanish and Portuguese, that they can't really follow antiquated versions of their own languages either. This is extremely dated English that you'd hear no American speaking unless they were some weirdo like me trying to channel the essence of a bygone time, and I wouldn't even go this far back. One thing you should understand about English is that, unlike Italian or Romance languages, you can only understand it going back about 600 years, if even that. English has been thought to be the world' biggest creole language, lacking a lot of the rules of other languages and ever-evolving... it and French are two sides of the same coin, a Germanic and Romance language, respectively, that warped heavily in the direction of the rival language group over time. I'm sure you Italians could understand Italian from 1000 years ago or more. From what I've seen, antiquated English is far harder to understand than would be antiquated Spanish or Italian. The older you go, the more Germanic English becomes (so, like Dutch), and so the less intelligible it would be to a modern speaker unless they really harnessed the essence of the language. I actually like older Spanish way better because it makes more sense! But older English really messes with the brain even for native speakers, especially the way these British noble types spoke and wrote it. You'll never hear an American use the word "seldom," nor (or 'nor') even grammatically-correct words like 'whom'. Whom gets used a lot more than seldom would be, but we almost have a tendency to ridicule this and be like "oh, 'WHOM,' ok, Shakespeare!".

  • @Amantducafe
    @Amantducafe Před 2 lety +81

    "Without money or friends..."
    If only you know how many potential friends you might have gotten in the future for writing this.

    • @ammagnolia
      @ammagnolia Před rokem

      People are saying he wrote it.... Because he was thrown in jail for all those debts and was writing a letter to someone explaining this whole thing wasn't his fault. The he died before someone could get to him. But the letter survived. I guess he made us as friends

  • @spasjt
    @spasjt Před 2 lety +303

    I like this guy describing how the indians were getting drunk and committed "irregularities" but was quick to lay blame, not at the indians feet, but on those who got them drunk. Granted a person should control themselves but the cultural customs of the Cherokee meant they did not know they were doing anything wrong. Also, I wonder what happened to this guy. He was effectively broke, had no friends in England, and no way to get back to his profitable business across the sea! Any history detectives out there?

    • @decem_sagittae
      @decem_sagittae Před 2 lety +82

      Yes, he was arrested for not paying his debts and thrown in prison.

    • @DSFARGEG00
      @DSFARGEG00 Před 2 lety +126

      Since he couldn't pay an outstanding lodging bill, he was arrested and thrown in prison, where he died some months later of that same year. An ignominious end, to be sure.

    • @decem_sagittae
      @decem_sagittae Před 2 lety +24

      He probably wrote his memoirs in prison. The memoirs from which this video quotes.

    • @davidgonzalez-herrera2980
      @davidgonzalez-herrera2980 Před 2 lety +99

      What a sad cruel ending. God bless him.

    • @ModernDayRenaissanceMan
      @ModernDayRenaissanceMan Před 2 lety +67

      This is actually what I was looking for. No good deed goes unpunished. He was asked to do a charge/favor & when he did - he ended up in jail for it. The tone of the written word seems like he is trying to convince someone "Hey ... This isn't my fault or theirs, go get that other guy who sent me." So it would seem it was written after he was in prison. Very sad.

  • @StellaPolaris-Topic
    @StellaPolaris-Topic Před 2 lety +148

    I'm a Cherokee descendant with Anglo-Irish roots as well. I laughed and smiled throughout this entire video. I love History and my people so this was a great experience. Wado unalii!

    • @krono5el
      @krono5el Před 2 lety +12

      the Celts\druids before the church killed them all, the original people in Ireland or Ur might have a greater connection with the natives of the Americas than most know about.

    • @ruzzsverion2728
      @ruzzsverion2728 Před 2 lety +5

      Your people? Wich one? The native or the European?

    • @swordartonline6719
      @swordartonline6719 Před 2 lety +2

      @@ruzzsverion2728 lol European definitely 🤣

    • @lennon39909
      @lennon39909 Před 2 lety

      @@ruzzsverion2728 ireland isnt european we were enslaved and contolled by european nd british colonialism. Go study history bro.

    • @ruzzsverion2728
      @ruzzsverion2728 Před 2 lety

      @@lennon39909 You are right, Irish are Africans, be so kind and piss off there.

  • @HistoryDose
    @HistoryDose Před 2 lety +124

    Fascinating. Nice work!

    • @HistoryDose
      @HistoryDose Před 2 lety +1

      @PJ Rivera we’ve got a collab coming out in a few months!

  • @spazmobot
    @spazmobot Před 2 lety +97

    Your channel is fascinating. It's not just history, but the perceptions of it through the unique perspectives of the people of that time. I'm so happy to have stumbled upon your content, and even more I'm excited that you've made sure that these voices are not lost to time and memory. Thank you for the work that you do!!

  • @HeroHoundoom
    @HeroHoundoom Před 2 lety +140

    I can't believe they refused to compensate the guy for his troubles! Anyways, a great account of an otherwise unknown Native American visit to England.

    • @MajorCoolD
      @MajorCoolD Před 2 lety +4

      Yeah he should have probably mentioned that when they had their audience with the King. Naturally it always looks bad to ask for money in the face of majesty... but people of lesser fortunes and divine favour have to see how to make ends meet. He could have also argued that this would go a great deal as the Cherokee seemed to be positively impressed and amazed (if not awed) by most they saw and the sheer commercial and martial might at their disposal. Therefore making further hostilites less likely and the Cherokee to be reliable allies and trade-partners and potentially loyal subjects to the crown in their own right in due time.
      Alas... this was just as badly mismanaged as a few other things.

    • @ammagnolia
      @ammagnolia Před rokem +2

      Some things don't change

  • @trevorclausen2994
    @trevorclausen2994 Před 2 lety +36

    Our New Zealand Ancestor Ngāpuhi Chiefs have some awesome stories of visiting England as well during the 1820s

  • @Horesmi
    @Horesmi Před 2 lety +78

    English:
    -This is our finest architectural achievement, the cathedral! Fall before it's awe!
    Natives:
    -It's ok, I guess.

  • @worddunlap
    @worddunlap Před 2 lety +104

    "The Cherokee were refused an audience and sent back in March 1765, with Timberlake remaining in London as he was arrested for failing to pay the bill for the lodging of himself and the Cherokees." The memoirs of Lieut. Henry Timberlake

  • @sketchye5943
    @sketchye5943 Před 2 lety +44

    These videos are so interesting, I always have them on in the background, thank you for making them!

  • @L_Train
    @L_Train Před 2 lety +42

    I have some rare interesting books on my people the Cherokees. I wish I could upload them somehow. Unfortunately, the tribe didn't document anything prior to the Spanish coming in the 1500s but we have records from a different tribe stating that they were at war with the Cherokees for years before they left to settle in what we think of as their "original" homeland.

    • @benjamingrist6539
      @benjamingrist6539 Před 2 lety +13

      The tribes surrounding the Cherokee speak Mississippian languages. However, the Cherokee speak an Iroquoian language. This suggests that the Cherokee moved down the mountains from somewhere around upstate New York and invaded the Mississippian Empire while it was in decline.

    • @DeanBrah
      @DeanBrah Před 2 lety +4

      Optical character recognition apps can transcribe whole books about as fast as you can turn pages

    • @2anthro
      @2anthro Před 2 lety +3

      Curious why you use the plural Cherokee(s) instead of Cherokee. Is that how the plural is spoken in the language? Thank you.

  • @adrianaslund8605
    @adrianaslund8605 Před 2 lety +99

    We tend to demonize christian missionaries in my culture as part of colonialist oppression. But you can hear that this man had great compassion and admiration for them.

    • @tristanbackup2536
      @tristanbackup2536 Před 2 lety +48

      All comes down to individuals. Some missionaries tried with force which was never ok & others lived with the tribes, learnt their langauge, culture & hunting.

    • @pellaxestorba4836
      @pellaxestorba4836 Před 2 lety +10

      Amen.

    • @LOLERXP
      @LOLERXP Před 2 lety +5

      @@tristanbackup2536 It's not a some & others issue, nor does it come down to individuals in all but the exceptions. That's a vast extenuation.

    • @crimsonlightbinder
      @crimsonlightbinder Před 2 lety +3

      you demonize them because pubblic discourse is occupied by left wing narratives where everything the "white european" did was and is wrong, which of course, isn't. It's in each and every one of us to take a stance and say, wait a minute, that's blatantly a lie and we speak of western civilization for a reason.

    • @spasjt
      @spasjt Před 2 lety

      @@yossariandunbar2829 Wonderful comment.

  • @tgmccoy1556
    @tgmccoy1556 Před 2 lety +39

    Needs to be a movie.
    BTW my late wife was a direct descendant of Ostanaco

  • @RonaldReaganRocks1
    @RonaldReaganRocks1 Před 2 lety

    This channel is so awesome! Keep these coming forever. Primary sources!

  • @TheMrShnickers
    @TheMrShnickers Před 2 lety +22

    That ending line got me

    • @meaningfulmindfulness15
      @meaningfulmindfulness15 Před 2 lety +6

      Dude, yeah it got me too. He bonded with them for sure with all that traveling.
      I'm Comanche and all, but find connection in this. Fascinating historical accounts where it shows how we all are capable of standing by one another, instead of against each other. Despite the hate I've gotten from white people before, I have quite a few white brothers and sisters who are close in my life and that I wouldn't think twice to have their back. Seeing these things makes me feel better when I'm feeling like shit.
      🦎

    • @TheMrShnickers
      @TheMrShnickers Před 2 lety +3

      @@meaningfulmindfulness15 you come from a strong and fascinating people, I’ve been reading about Comanche history, they’re one of the most interesting tribes to know. It’s stories like the video that reminds that not everything was him against them mentality

  • @elvenkind6072
    @elvenkind6072 Před 2 lety +1

    Really a beautiful story, thanks a lot for everything you produce, this is.quickly becoming my favourite channel.

  • @nicholazburkinton3856
    @nicholazburkinton3856 Před 2 lety +26

    I would be interested to see Rama V's visit to Europe. In my country, he is the first king to ever set foot out of country so I'd like to see a video about that. :)

  • @corneliusmcmuffin3256
    @corneliusmcmuffin3256 Před 2 lety +17

    7:16
    This man just inadvertently predicted the Cherokee casinos...

  • @kevinfang3074
    @kevinfang3074 Před 2 lety

    Gotta like every video and spread the word. Great channel

  • @asharpmajor6740
    @asharpmajor6740 Před 2 lety +10

    Congratulations Voices of the Past of coming up with such an original idea for videos and growing from just a handful of subscribers to over 460,000. I really only expected you to have a small following because of the nature of your subject matter, but time has shown that there are many more people interested in hearing directly from the voices of the past than I could have imagined.

    • @niclasnyberg4173
      @niclasnyberg4173 Před 2 lety

      Just crunched some math and 460000 is only .0000575% of the population. I get what you're saying though

  • @CaesiusX
    @CaesiusX Před 2 lety +1

    Easily one of my favorite channels on CZcams!

  • @zhugeliang1000
    @zhugeliang1000 Před 2 lety

    ALWAYS a fantastic journey of words and mind
    Merry Christmas to all

  • @Jim-Mc
    @Jim-Mc Před 2 lety +26

    Very fascinated with the idea they didn't like the statue of Hercules with his club and basically wanted to get away from it. As a totem or idol I don't blame them for not wanting to be near it. Can't help but wonder what it signified to them, or brought to mind.

    • @perfectplayingplaids
      @perfectplayingplaids Před 2 lety +4

      My guess is that it probably reminded them of a man with a club 🤔

    • @Jim-Mc
      @Jim-Mc Před 2 lety +3

      @@perfectplayingplaids oh man, nothing is ever just "a guy."

    • @perfectplayingplaids
      @perfectplayingplaids Před 2 lety

      @@Jim-Mc Fair enough, he is a demigod after all

    • @Loth440
      @Loth440 Před 2 lety +3

      May have reminded them of the stories they've heard of troubles with giants in ancient times.

    • @lilahdog568
      @lilahdog568 Před 2 lety

      It brought to mind someone putting a beating on someone else.

  • @zerothehero753
    @zerothehero753 Před 2 lety +1

    This was the best story, I've heard all year.

  • @chrism7395
    @chrism7395 Před 2 lety +12

    Living in Plymouth, I really want to know where they stayed when they arrived

  • @age2008soloway
    @age2008soloway Před 2 lety +15

    The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued by King George III on 7 October 1763. It followed the Treaty of Paris (1763), which formally ended the Seven Years' War and transferred French territory in North America to Great Britain.[1] The Proclamation forbade all settlements west of a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains, which was delineated as an Indian Reserve.[2] Exclusion from the vast region of Trans-Appalachia created discontent between Britain and colonial land speculators and potential settlers. The proclamation and access to western lands was one of the first significant areas of dispute between Britain

    • @kungfutzu3779
      @kungfutzu3779 Před 2 lety +1

      missing part of post

    • @ToastytheG
      @ToastytheG Před 2 lety +2

      I think he means between britain and the US. The royal proclamation ended up being waaaaay more than the brits could hold up in a bargain, and they ended up reneging on a lot of the promises therein.

  • @The-three-eyed-Prophet
    @The-three-eyed-Prophet Před 2 lety +2

    i love the videos where somebody describes something from the past

  • @tecumsehcristero
    @tecumsehcristero Před 2 lety +7

    That's monk's mound Cahokia Illinois.
    I'm from Illinois. I love the Cahokia mounds

  • @pricenaseen
    @pricenaseen Před 2 lety

    We need more content please!

  • @CwL-1984
    @CwL-1984 Před 2 lety

    This is an amazing job 👍👍.

  • @endaohalloran6649
    @endaohalloran6649 Před 2 lety +16

    By the sounds of it the Cherokee who were with him appear to be like any other persons, accepting of all food and drink when people offer it to them and allowing themselves to be a bit wild and rough while away from home 🤣

    • @MrAnperm
      @MrAnperm Před 2 lety

      It's definitely how I behave when I'm travelling.

  • @sparky6086
    @sparky6086 Před 2 lety +43

    Not specified in the question, but it may be of interest. The oldest continually occupied city in the United States, is Childersburg, Alabama. It was formerly known as "Coosa" and was a Native American city before it was taken over by European descendants, after the natives were removed to Oklahoma.

    • @bobbilaval6171
      @bobbilaval6171 Před 2 lety +6

      There are Pueblos in the Southwest that would make the same claim.

    • @kungfutzu3779
      @kungfutzu3779 Před 2 lety +5

      what's the official definition of a "city" ?

    • @ems7623
      @ems7623 Před 2 lety +5

      @@kungfutzu3779 There is no governing body determining the definition of a city in American history. So, you're stuck with the one used by archeologists and historians - a settled community (as in, not nomadic) that relies on agriculture and/or livestock more than hunting and gathering, and has government and a social class system which divides social roles and labor.
      These criteria mean that a city would have to have a population size large enough to divide into groups and large enough to require organized governing institutions - relevant to the overall population of whatever era it is in.
      That said, there are other definitions of city from one culture to another - and some nations, such as Britain, do have official processes for determining whether a place is a city, a town or just a village.

    • @kungfutzu3779
      @kungfutzu3779 Před 2 lety

      @@ems7623 thanks. i note your definition doesn't specify how formal those social divisions are, so it occurs to me even a village if there's ANY division of labour might meet the description

    • @sparky6086
      @sparky6086 Před 2 lety

      @@bobbilaval6171 Were those cities "continually occupied"? Weren't there periods, where those towns out West were deserted for many years?

  • @Argacyan
    @Argacyan Před 2 lety +26

    04:00 I see a lot of media about the witch hunts in Salem but to be honest it feels wholely unwarranted. I would personally be more invested in the epicentre of the witch hunts, the Holy Roman Empire and more specifically witch hunts in Switzerland.

    • @TheSaneHatter
      @TheSaneHatter Před 2 lety +11

      It's true that the Salem outbreak was actually atypical of the times, and occurred well after the heyday of witch-hunting in European culture. That, in turn, is why it caused so much shock and horror when many worse deeds earlier in history are overlooked. This fact isn't emphasized enough in histories of the incident.

    • @natashabaars5030
      @natashabaars5030 Před 2 lety

      I live in a swiss town where we still have a "witch tower" (Hexenturm in German) 😶 In case you're interested to learn more

  • @Shaden0040
    @Shaden0040 Před 2 lety +20

    Well the oldest encampment on the continent in the current US is SEavy Island between New Hampshire and Maine and has been occupied sine before 1500 by English and Welsh every spring , summer and autumn with ifshing boats and salting and smoking racks. Only returning each seasons end with ful catches of salted andsmoked and dried fish to sell in London.

    • @waltonsmith7210
      @waltonsmith7210 Před 2 lety

      So there's really a part of US soil where englishmen set foot before the year 1500?

  • @sarah3796
    @sarah3796 Před 2 lety

    Wow! I love your channel

  • @damian597
    @damian597 Před 2 lety

    I love hearing from people that was actually there in these points of history. You will often find the accounts are much different than what the narratives of them times are today.

  • @soupit32
    @soupit32 Před 2 lety +1

    So great

  • @nachgeben
    @nachgeben Před 2 lety +194

    I appreciate you showing standpoints thought so commonly not to exist, such as white people who weren't just immediately brutalizing Native Americans. While we cannot deny such horrible things happened, it's also important to share stories hiding in the background. The uncommon and even uplifting.

    • @forgetful9845
      @forgetful9845 Před 2 lety +30

      I mean i think most people know that white people interacted in various ways with the natives

    • @arrow1414
      @arrow1414 Před 2 lety +36

      Yes but the sad thing is that these are the Cherokee, who will later said to be one of the five so called "civilized tribes" in that they would adopt many of the white man's ways of living including wearing European clothes and starting their own newspaper in their American towns. It didn't stop them some 70-odd years later from being evicted from their homes by President Jackson starting in 1831 and forced to migrate over a thousand miles from Georgia to the Oklahoma territory (despite the Supreme Court ruling in the Cherokee's favor to stop the eviction) on the "Trail of Tears".

    • @forgetful9845
      @forgetful9845 Před 2 lety +1

      @@arrow1414 Yeah it is sad, its sad SCOTUS provided no means to enforce their ruling

    • @TheSaneHatter
      @TheSaneHatter Před 2 lety +25

      @@arrow1414 You're missing the point: while everyone knows everything you just said (making it unnecessary for you to say it at all, quite frankly), WarArmour quite rightly points out that this injustice didn't represent *everyone's* point of view, even among the whites. Remembering that is as important as remembering injustices, because we need to build on something good in ourselves, and therefore we have to REMEMBER the good.

    • @arrow1414
      @arrow1414 Před 2 lety +14

      @@TheSaneHatter
      I was not saying not to remember the good, but telling what would eventually happen to their people despite their efforts to assimilate. And indeed, not everyone knows about the Trail of Tears. It has a poignancy in light of their grandfathers seeing the King of Great Britain.

  • @zero3556
    @zero3556 Před 2 lety +1

    Great Video!
    The trip of the 4 Mohawk "Kings" to London in 1710 during the war of the Spanish Succession ("Kings" as the chiefs were called that by the London press at that time) would also make for a great video. They were initially 5 Mohawk chiefs (of seperate mohawk tribes) and shocked everyone by traveling to London personally instead of sending representatives. One of them even died on the cruise to England hence only 4 of them arriving in London. It's been some time since I worked on the topic but some historians in my faculty are still debating to this day if their speech to Queen Anne was faithfully interpreted by the interpreters of the colonies, or if the colonies had own goals in mind and translated their speech in a way to voice their needs rather than being faithful to the translation. There are some indicators for that. For example that they asked Queen Anne for ressources and soldiers for the colonies which is a weird request coming from the tribes that worry about the increasing number of colonists in North America and fear their borders won't be respected the more Europeans migrate to the colonies.

  • @shmee123ful
    @shmee123ful Před 2 lety +7

    Do you have any stories like this for Aboriginals from Australia or Maori. I would be very interested to listen to any stories about them going aboard after contact with euphoran contact or from their own perspective

  • @TheMrShnickers
    @TheMrShnickers Před 2 lety +34

    King George should’ve smoked with the Chief!

    • @Wanderer628
      @Wanderer628 Před 2 lety +7

      Why? They are in his home and his customs matter just as much as the Chiefs.

    • @beliallordoflies7121
      @beliallordoflies7121 Před 2 lety +6

      @@Wanderer628 just would've been a cool piece of history

    • @olivius8891
      @olivius8891 Před 2 lety +3

      @@Wanderer628 It would be dope as hell.

  • @Poodleinacan
    @Poodleinacan Před 2 lety +1

    That was quite interesting.

  • @MegaFrankgarcia
    @MegaFrankgarcia Před 2 lety +2

    Santa Fe is the oldest established colony in America circa 1590ish, Great Video!!

    • @MegaFrankgarcia
      @MegaFrankgarcia Před 2 lety

      @Lite-Wing Gift to be honest, Santa Fe, La Hispaniola, San Juan & other Spanish named places were probably all settled at about the same time, when the Spanish came to the Americas. The same can be said for the French in Canada. All these places were already inhabited regardless of who named then. Thx for the reply.

  • @IsaacCarmichael
    @IsaacCarmichael Před 2 lety

    It sounded like he said set off for Hampton from where we were in embark (2 minutes) Thats my hometown. Its east of Jamestown. Thats so cool

  • @Adrian-bx4ue
    @Adrian-bx4ue Před 2 lety +6

    Ostenaco died at the home of his grandson, Richard Timberlake, the son of Henry Timberlake and Ostenaco's daughter, at Ooltewah in 1780.
    Happy Thanksgiving.

  • @yt-lemro3237
    @yt-lemro3237 Před 2 lety

    Amazing chanel

  • @Lcngopher
    @Lcngopher Před rokem

    The ad reminded me of the episode of finding your roots that had jeff daniels on it and his family had a connection to the witch trials that happened in new england such as the salem witch trials

  • @BrettonFerguson
    @BrettonFerguson Před 2 lety +41

    What is the oldest city in the United States? Depends if you mean the geographical area that is currently the united states, or the united states the country. Yes there were native cities older, but they weren't in the United States when they were cities were they? They were in Pueblo Nation, Navajo Nation, Cherokee nation... not in the United States. What's defines a city? City government? Minimum population 30,000? Continuously inhabited city or not? Lots of technical variables.

    • @TheSaneHatter
      @TheSaneHatter Před 2 lety +12

      Indeed, I've been taught all my life (I'm 46) that St. Augustine is the oldest city in America (at least, the oldest one still inhabited), and was furthermore told that I needed to appreciate this as a matter of cultural awareness. The tone here is that this is now somehow considered ignorant or even racist, and that change of attitude just isn't fair.

    • @Sigmanovar
      @Sigmanovar Před 2 lety +3

      Yep,Atlanta use to be in Cherokee nation

    • @BrettonFerguson
      @BrettonFerguson Před 2 lety +9

      Another video had an annoying non specific question "What was the greatest empire in the 17th century, the Dutch, Spanish, or Chinese?" It entirely depends on what greatest means. It's not a specific enough question. The Dutch were greatest by wealth. the Spanish were greatest by land occupied. The Chinese were greatest by population. So which was the greatest empire is also an annoying question IMO.
      Which is the oldest city in the United states depends on what you mean by city, and what you mean by in the united states.
      It isn't as big of an issue on internet videos, even though it is common, but non technical non specific questions like this are in school textbooks. There is no technically correct answer, but you have to pick the "correct" one to get a good grade.

    • @theEtch
      @theEtch Před 2 lety +3

      city = bigger than whatever they had

    • @kungfutzu3779
      @kungfutzu3779 Před 2 lety +3

      @@BrettonFerguson a deliberately ambiguous word is used to deliberately open space for debate & discussion.

  • @imout671
    @imout671 Před 2 lety +11

    Fort Mims was the largest massacre in the early American history. 500 people killed by red stick creek Indians near mobile Alabama. I'm sure the dead were a vast mix of friendly, creeks, blacks, Europeans as much intermarriage was common.

    • @pinchevulpes
      @pinchevulpes Před 2 lety +4

      The Narragansett were completely destroyed by early settlers in King Phillips war, which I’m sure is much more than 500 people.

    • @imout671
      @imout671 Před 2 lety +2

      @@pinchevulpes particularly i was speaking of single day battles. Like 9/11, wounded knee, the biggest one day war in king Phillips war maybe 300 estimated dead that I'm aware of. There were several massacres of friendly Indians but none to my knowledge were near 500.

    • @pinchevulpes
      @pinchevulpes Před 2 lety +2

      @@imout671 no you were speaking in general terms.

    • @Georgieastra
      @Georgieastra Před 2 lety

      St Cloud's Defeat aka The Battle of a Thousand Slain?

    • @imout671
      @imout671 Před 2 lety +2

      @@pinchevulpes massacre is usually interpreted as a single instance of killing and thats how i used the word. You can't read minds so be polite.

  • @ShitMental
    @ShitMental Před 2 lety +3

    Wow. The voice recording is in far better condition that I expected. Just kidding, great work. I'm not sure what I expected, but it wasn't so much debauchery and misbehaviour!!

  • @BarracudaBoy
    @BarracudaBoy Před 2 lety

    Dang! Left me hanging. How did he get back?

  • @vivienmartin225
    @vivienmartin225 Před 2 lety +1

    I’m fascinated by this English guy. One of the only Anglo accounts that really seems to understand what’s really going on with the natives.

  • @antonistsiki8464
    @antonistsiki8464 Před 2 lety +2

    7:15 some things never change.

  • @Gold_Bug
    @Gold_Bug Před 2 lety +5

    Really great video. From a quick google search it looks like he died in a debtors prison a few years later. Sad end.

    • @ToastytheG
      @ToastytheG Před 2 lety

      Thank god the revolutionary war happened. Britain was beyond the pale in those days...

  • @Urlocallordandsavior
    @Urlocallordandsavior Před 2 lety

    As a suggestion, 1771's History of the Kingdom of Siam by F. H. Turpin, in which chronicles the events around the fall of the city of Ayutthaya by the Burmese in 1767.

  • @FramesJanco505
    @FramesJanco505 Před 2 lety +43

    As a native, we haven’t changed much🤣

  • @patriotsfan123
    @patriotsfan123 Před 2 lety +1

    I am a student at William and Mary in Williamsburg. It’s cool to hear it mentioned in this video.

  • @chocolatefrenzieya
    @chocolatefrenzieya Před 2 lety +15

    Wait...interpreter's wife drowned him? Did I hear that right? lol!

    • @MrAnperm
      @MrAnperm Před 2 lety +1

      She tried to sober him up.

  • @XSpamDragonX
    @XSpamDragonX Před 2 lety +4

    15 shillings in 1762 is worth about 161 modern british pounds

  • @Anthony-of5jn
    @Anthony-of5jn Před 2 lety +3

    Love the channel, do you happen to anything about Africa?

    • @Electronic424
      @Electronic424 Před 2 lety

      Other than Egypt, Africa has little cultural history

    • @Anthony-of5jn
      @Anthony-of5jn Před 2 lety +1

      The entire continent?

    • @flopsymopsy7088
      @flopsymopsy7088 Před 2 lety +2

      @@Electronic424 education about African culture is sorely lacking. Consider Sankore University in Timbuktu, Mali in 1300s had over 700,000 manuscripts, ancient Morocco University, the Benin bronzes stolen with many currently in Western museums are among the most intricate and exquisite works of art of any culture, the advanced culture of Zanzibar during the early spice trade, the Zulu culture, the role of Americans in Liberia, etc, etc. Google some of these places, you’ll be amazed at the richness of African cultures.

  • @GasSoakedRag
    @GasSoakedRag Před 2 lety +6

    "committed several irregularities" lol

  • @CheeferSutherland
    @CheeferSutherland Před rokem

    10:17 things haven't changed much since then, I'm still asking people this all the time! 😂😂

  • @miketacos9034
    @miketacos9034 Před 2 lety +2

    When your school admin refuses to cover the cost of your field trip:

  • @primalcode3057
    @primalcode3057 Před 2 lety

    The first man pictured was Amatoya Kanagaota Moytoy of Chota my 9th great grandfather

  • @DigitalDuelist
    @DigitalDuelist Před 2 lety

    These videos give me hope for the future of humanity among so many that do the opposite. Thank you.

  • @dreadfulpennyanimates3476

    Sometimes I wonder if the impressions of Native American descriptions in diaries were people describing the culture shock or if Native Americans were really that mysterious. They always seem to be described as very stern, stoic people that never laugh.

  • @mightymite3958
    @mightymite3958 Před 2 lety

    Have you read all of his writings on the cherokee ppl? Where is that video at?

  • @alexandermackie9637
    @alexandermackie9637 Před 2 lety +6

    Which Native American "cities" are now a part of the United States?

  • @CosmosGwelf
    @CosmosGwelf Před 2 lety +1

    Heartbreaking 😟

  • @omerazhar7560
    @omerazhar7560 Před 2 lety +4

    I live your videos,Salam alaikum from Pakistan friend.

  • @dumupad3-da241
    @dumupad3-da241 Před 2 lety +10

    9:02 - 'And I really believe few persons have more friends than Mr Wood.' I wonder if that means that the visitors had bribed Wood to obtain his permission to see the Cherokees or simply that they all lied to Timberlake that they were friends of Wood. The former would be typical of the British polity of those times as depicted in works by Tobias Smollett and others. As would be the government's total ingratitude and lack of recompense for a person like Timberlake who has taken upon himself such a responsible mission for Britain's benefit.

    • @helmholtzthemulewatson4763
      @helmholtzthemulewatson4763 Před 2 lety +5

      I think it is left open to either interpretation intentionally. Like other parts of his log he makes it clear that he is not involved and stop short of accusing others with grace.

  • @Urlocallordandsavior
    @Urlocallordandsavior Před 2 lety

    Hard to imagine that Ayutthaya (another place known for its cross-cultural exchanges) would fall on the other side of the world just five years later.

  • @senakaweeraratna741
    @senakaweeraratna741 Před 2 lety

    The Sinhalese people were also taken by all colonial rulers of Ceylon i.e. Portuguese (Lisbon), Dutch (Leiden and Amsterdam), and the British (London) at the height of colonial rule, mostly for purpose of religious conversion by Christian Missionaries. The accounts of their travel overseas to the centres of colonial power left by both themselves and Portuguese, Dutch and British Historians are fascinating and insightful.

  • @Tyler-qg2sj
    @Tyler-qg2sj Před 2 lety +2

    I wonder what the whole quiet talking thing was about.

  • @jt_norway9129
    @jt_norway9129 Před 2 lety

    Im an infj and i wish to be an aspiring writer but im really my own worst enemy 😖 these stories give me inspiration so thank u.

    • @feral7523
      @feral7523 Před 2 lety

      If I was an infj I'd be struggling too?

    • @jt_norway9129
      @jt_norway9129 Před 2 lety +1

      @@feral7523 not necessaceraly ❤️ but there Are certain cognitive functions that works better with certain professions 🙂

    • @feral7523
      @feral7523 Před 2 lety +1

      @@jt_norway9129 Good look with the writing 🤞👍

  • @silent_stalker3687
    @silent_stalker3687 Před 2 lety

    I suggest looking at the crime log- of the equivalent there of at the time of the Salem hunts.
    Many of the ‘witches’ were accused of murdering their husbands and other crimes- I don’t remember the men to women ratio but that’s a detail that isn’t quite mentioned.

  • @callumwilliams7439
    @callumwilliams7439 Před 2 lety +6

    People back in the old days really described things very elegantly, makes me wonder if people back then were as bad as we believe them to be today.

  • @mostlycusimbored
    @mostlycusimbored Před 2 lety +3

    His indian spouse dunked him in but was unable to get him out 💀

  • @hereticlife2546
    @hereticlife2546 Před 2 lety +1

    I just had the strangest fucking experience listening to this. At about the 2:30 mark Is the sound effect of waves rushing and it only played through my right ear bud. This sound affect came on as soon as I was making a wide left turn and it discombobulated me like I was actually on a ship. Typing this now my head feels cloudy and I feel nauseous. That is so fucking weird how tricked my brain just was.

  • @0therun1t21
    @0therun1t21 Před 2 lety +2

    Why didn't they teach us about this in school? It wasn't in any textbook that I know about or remember.
    ...The way they were treated makes me sad.
    Thank you!

  • @petrichorjournal8866
    @petrichorjournal8866 Před 2 lety

    3:43 Acoma and Taos would like a word.

  • @mactrece7167
    @mactrece7167 Před 2 lety +3

    Blows my mind too hear such amazing history. I wish school would how taught us more about this. Saludos from WA, EVERGREEN 🌲

  • @JoeSmith-sl9bq
    @JoeSmith-sl9bq Před 2 lety +2

    Imagine if the American natives defeated the first colonists, took over their ships with captured European sailors and invaded UK. Impossible but cool alternative history to think about

  • @canedewey756
    @canedewey756 Před 2 lety +1

    Is he the guy that they gave the turban to? Word is... They went over to England to meet the king and they didn't have proper attire, so the castle said "hey there was a delegation from India here last week and we still have their clothes".... That's how Cherokees started wearing the turban

  • @cobraarms2466
    @cobraarms2466 Před 2 lety +2

    You know in multiple choice if it’s none of the above that should be one of choices

  • @OneDayAtATime365
    @OneDayAtATime365 Před 9 měsíci

    Im fascinated by the maritime histoy of tobacco. I can't remember where I read accounts of natives jumping overboard attemping to swim to land or islands nearby. Their affinity was much more than for religious and recreational purposes. Its was a chemical dependency. Imagine the horror of a voyage of withdrawals. 😬

  • @matthewmayhem9213
    @matthewmayhem9213 Před rokem +1

    Speaking of the Salem Witch Trials... I'm directly descended from Sarah Osborne, the first Witch to die (in prison) during the SWT.

  • @quetzalcoatl3242
    @quetzalcoatl3242 Před 2 lety +5

    Imagine Cherokee be the official language of the USA 🇺🇸

    • @hicknopunk
      @hicknopunk Před 2 lety +1

      Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.

    • @Averyofthemain
      @Averyofthemain Před 10 měsíci

      why not arawak or algpnquin....English is just fine.

  • @gilaschannel1855
    @gilaschannel1855 Před 2 lety

    Fascinating account

  • @douglasadams7803
    @douglasadams7803 Před 2 lety +1

    This sounds like a modern account of native americans in my city.

  • @ModernDayRenaissanceMan
    @ModernDayRenaissanceMan Před 2 lety +5

    Guy helps indians, ends up in jail & dead a few months later. Never do a good deed.

  • @Dionaea_floridensis
    @Dionaea_floridensis Před 2 lety +6

    "they were very given to drinking and gambling"
    Hmmmm

  • @olivius8891
    @olivius8891 Před 2 lety +9

    Do you think he kept pouring money into their housing and living conditions because he was afraid of being alone? Losing his only friends?

    • @pellaxestorba4836
      @pellaxestorba4836 Před 2 lety +3

      No.
      He sounds like a very sincere person with a precious soul.
      God bless his memory and name for ever.

    • @skyworm8006
      @skyworm8006 Před 2 lety +1

      @MislabelledMaker Host customs like that are common in most cultures. I'm sure the English of that time would be much the same. It is also the guest's duty not to rob the host. In this case the Cherokee are obviously upperclass and expect luxury and respect all expenses covered, but unfortunately the government wasn't properly supporting Timberlake so he's stuck in bad position.

  • @volrising6984
    @volrising6984 Před 2 lety +2

    9 grandson of oconostata one of the Cherokee who meet the king and I haven’t ever heard this side of the story! I feel bad for the guy who went broke 😂 I’d been like no! You’re cut off!