The History of Dominica

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  • čas přidán 14. 07. 2023
  • Dominica, located in the Lesser Antilles of the Caribbean, is one of the world's most unique nations. This short documentary is an exploration of Dominica's little known history.
    Each ReelPolitik video has a unique, original musical score, pulling the listener through time using era specific instruments that are tailored to the country in question. If you enjoyed the music in this video, check out the CZcams channel of composer Angelo Tardinaco: / channel
    This video is for educational purposes. Use of pictures & videos is protected under the Copyright Act of 1976.
    For those interested in further exploring the Maroons of Dominica, "In the Forests of Freedom: The Fighting Maroons of Dominica" by Lennox Honychurch is an excellent, highly recommended book on the subject.
    DISCLAIMER:
    This documentary makes extensive use of Midjourney V5.2 - an artificial intelligence program which creates images based on written prompts. AI generated images were used selectively to visually convey certain moments that were otherwise difficult to find corresponding images for. Therefore, depictions of clothing, terrain, tools, likeness of historical figures, etc. might be slightly inaccurate at certain moments.

Komentáře • 76

  • @AngeloTardanicoMusicYT
    @AngeloTardanicoMusicYT Před 11 měsíci +14

    Great work my friend, having worked on this video was a great pleasure 🙌

    • @reelpolitik1154
      @reelpolitik1154  Před 11 měsíci +2

      Thank you bro, excellent job on the music !

    • @user-mg2ip8cr8z
      @user-mg2ip8cr8z Před 4 měsíci +1

      @@reelpolitik1154 0:42 south African tribes never sailed here , did u mean south American ????

    • @thelinkagency1
      @thelinkagency1 Před 4 měsíci +1

      @@user-mg2ip8cr8z They have no clue about my land, ah joke ting!... Go research your own land, rewind and doh come again!.. What does Marooon mean that is a colour, socio-political construct!...

  • @marleneshillingford4199
    @marleneshillingford4199 Před 11 měsíci +33

    The aboriginal name of Dominica is "witikabuli ',,
    which means tall is her body ...

  • @VejieLaurent-vg8td
    @VejieLaurent-vg8td Před 16 dny +1

    That's my home love it Dominica 🇩🇲

  • @khadeelwin9436
    @khadeelwin9436 Před 10 měsíci +9

    The visuals are amazing

  • @jasongranados5783
    @jasongranados5783 Před 5 měsíci +1

    This video was amazing, you present the history so well and straight to the point 🙏🙏🙏

  • @mrmann7045
    @mrmann7045 Před 8 měsíci +19

    Good information, but wrong geographic.
    You are confusing the Dominican Republic with the island of Dominica. Which is between Guadeloupe And Martinique.

    • @reelpolitik1154
      @reelpolitik1154  Před 8 měsíci +2

      Thanks for watching and for pointing out the error - my mistake!

    • @mrmann7045
      @mrmann7045 Před 8 měsíci +5

      @reelpolitik1154 All good. My island always gets confused for DR... hell, my daughter had a huge argument with one of her teachers last school year about it. Lol we're used to it.

    • @lucienjervier7089
      @lucienjervier7089 Před 8 měsíci

      3:37
      87.

  • @andylumina2019
    @andylumina2019 Před 8 měsíci +6

    Well done!!! Bravo. You are one of the few that have created such a fully and thoroughly, thought out history of the island. Thank you!

  • @rlcam6175
    @rlcam6175 Před měsícem

    In laws from Dominica 🇩🇲 shared this video. Very informative.

  • @johnpbrown3348
    @johnpbrown3348 Před 9 měsíci +9

    The best place on planet earth .trust me

    • @JJLewin1
      @JJLewin1 Před 9 měsíci +2

      Beautiful country, I lived there a while

    • @ShaloMEibbotson
      @ShaloMEibbotson Před 9 měsíci +2

      I cant wait to visit soon. It looks so beautiful. 😍

    • @johnpbrown3348
      @johnpbrown3348 Před 9 měsíci

      @@ShaloMEibbotson it is trust me

  • @j-smallz7343
    @j-smallz7343 Před 10 měsíci +2

    Powerful

  • @user-bh5sd2fn8y
    @user-bh5sd2fn8y Před 3 měsíci +1

    amazing documentation very accurate

  • @selecta1floyd
    @selecta1floyd Před 9 měsíci +6

    im a descendant of Kalinago and African slave

  • @thisguy2557
    @thisguy2557 Před 2 měsíci

    nice work

  • @KayanlindoDavidson
    @KayanlindoDavidson Před 22 dny

    I'm so happy learn about your histroy

  • @mcswainbertrand4985
    @mcswainbertrand4985 Před 3 měsíci +3

    great video, however we are not poor and we don't depend on banana and coconuts exports haven't in 30 years. we primarily depend on tourism

  • @denisyahrashallamgjules9039
    @denisyahrashallamgjules9039 Před 9 měsíci +29

    I disagree with his statement that the Island is poor. It's a wealthy Island. Also, he said South Africa, not South America.

    • @alfredogomez5241
      @alfredogomez5241 Před 6 měsíci +2

      It is not a wealthy island

    • @naphtalisellassie9595
      @naphtalisellassie9595 Před 5 měsíci

      You right .

    • @CeluiEtSeul
      @CeluiEtSeul Před 5 měsíci +3

      Rich in resources and nature, but poor economically. If Dominica wasn't as poor, we wouldn't be using the E.C. currency which is still a British backed currency. We would have used our own currency since we are a Sovereign Republic

    • @Maxie-vm4ur
      @Maxie-vm4ur Před 3 měsíci

      @@alfredogomez5241it is goofy

    • @smhunney8266
      @smhunney8266 Před měsícem +2

      Extremely rich but poor in management. Dominica has an abundance of natural wealth. It must also be noted that Europeans couldn't step foot on Dominica for a number of years because of the Kalinago.

  • @pebbles2cute4u
    @pebbles2cute4u Před 2 měsíci +3

    Dominica & the Dominican Republic (Hispaniola) are two completely different islands. The intro is incorrect.

    • @reelpolitik1154
      @reelpolitik1154  Před 2 měsíci +1

      Yes, I mistakenly used the wrong map during the intro, sorry about that. However, the information in the narration should be correct.

  • @KiloTray
    @KiloTray Před 3 měsíci +2

    My home 🇩🇲

  • @kf9926
    @kf9926 Před 4 měsíci +2

    The thumbnail is a picture of Joseph Chatoyer and the black Caribs of st Vincent ?

  • @jocelynf7452
    @jocelynf7452 Před 9 měsíci +8

    Also the map shows the wrong island of Hispaniola, Santo Domingo.
    The island your video is about is a smaller island further down the chain of islands just north of Martinique.
    That is Dominica 🇩🇲. It is different from the Spanish Santo Domingo the DR.

  • @crazojw
    @crazojw Před 9 měsíci +2

    Great job....very informative 👏💚🙏

  • @MrCOLDOLD
    @MrCOLDOLD Před 29 dny +1

    Man ka mandé mwen poutji rézon an gwoup moun pé pa twavay ansanm pou fè an twadiksyon apwochan an lang kréyòl épi dé dokimantè kon sa?

  • @missstrizz5252
    @missstrizz5252 Před 2 měsíci +1

    1st nice video 💯2nd i just have to say Dominica is its own island 🏝️ not north. America

  • @novascotiana-ourroadtoburn2408
    @novascotiana-ourroadtoburn2408 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Wow! Super interesting, very well researched video. Thank you!!!

  • @danieljones9980
    @danieljones9980 Před 10 měsíci +2

    🇩🇲🇩🇲🇩🇲🇩🇲 great job and very informative

  • @KiloTray
    @KiloTray Před 3 měsíci +1

    U forget the story of massacre where the river ran red for a whole month

  • @sonydee33
    @sonydee33 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Well done.

  • @robkunkel8833
    @robkunkel8833 Před 20 dny

    “A microcosm of human interaction under extraordinary circumstances”. A nice summary. I’ve been in Rosseau for a Carnival and two weeks coming in under sail. I had no idea the English made this such a mess.”
    Plus hurricanes. In St. Thomas, where I live, we have US insurance, contractors and good grant management & organization that Dominica can never hope to have. It is just economics. AND … thankfully we were under the Danes and St. Thomas never an place where slavery was a profitable entity for most attempts. Too hilly and volcanic rocky. .

  • @BlkKritkal
    @BlkKritkal Před 7 měsíci

    What are your sources? I was trying to find more information on Maroons and Jean-Louis Pollinaire(?) but could not find anything.

    • @reelpolitik1154
      @reelpolitik1154  Před 7 měsíci

      My main source for this video was the book "In the Forests of Freedom" by Lennox Honychurch

  • @bigboss-bo3lf
    @bigboss-bo3lf Před 8 měsíci +3

    I'm from dominica😂

  • @__BigTEN
    @__BigTEN Před 7 měsíci +1

    🇩🇲🇩🇲🇩🇲🇩🇲🇩🇲

  • @user-mg2ip8cr8z
    @user-mg2ip8cr8z Před 4 měsíci +2

    9:42 no south African tribe ever sailed here , its a south American tribe

  • @VolatileWare
    @VolatileWare Před 9 měsíci

    Tuff

  • @JonathanHenry-yt1hk
    @JonathanHenry-yt1hk Před 2 měsíci +1

    Your history of dominica is incomplete u did not mention Indian Warner the first native governor of dominica who was massacred in 1660 by the British thus the name massacre

  • @JB-kn2zh
    @JB-kn2zh Před 5 měsíci

    0:40 you said South African tribe didn't you? sorry, it's just a silly recording mistake, but it was a little jarring. I was confused for a second lol.

    • @reelpolitik1154
      @reelpolitik1154  Před 5 měsíci +1

      Yeah, that was a recording mistake on my part - meant to say South America

  • @Blackdiamond929_
    @Blackdiamond929_ Před 5 měsíci

    0:42 South American

  • @ma1375
    @ma1375 Před 3 měsíci

    The narrator is like angry

  • @Angel-uj4um
    @Angel-uj4um Před 5 měsíci +2

    Bro black people was everywhere how don’t people see this shit n I’m Mexican

  • @thelinkagency1
    @thelinkagency1 Před 10 měsíci +1

    AI is misleading you...

    • @reelpolitik1154
      @reelpolitik1154  Před 10 měsíci

      How so?

    • @thelinkagency1
      @thelinkagency1 Před 10 měsíci +2

      @@reelpolitik1154 The images my friend, they are not correct of the first Europeans to land in the Americas, go research it...

    • @reelpolitik1154
      @reelpolitik1154  Před 10 měsíci +4

      Thank you for watching and for your feedback. Can I ask specifically which images were inaccurate, with timestamps? This will help me for future videos.
      AI was used to create certain moments, but real historical images were used extensively in this video as well, including the images of Europeans landing. Where AI art is used, I always try my best to depict the scenes with historical accuracy.

  • @opontiauguiste2511
    @opontiauguiste2511 Před 3 měsíci

    What south africans is this man talking about

  • @scot506
    @scot506 Před 7 měsíci +8

    Dominica is not poor but poorly managed

    • @waldog38
      @waldog38 Před 5 měsíci

      AMEN TO THAT!!!

    • @jeangumbs7172
      @jeangumbs7172 Před 4 měsíci +1

      Well it seems that what Dominica has been wiped out several times in history due to major hurricanes and other natural disasters. I think managing a country like that would be quite difficult.

    • @StrongnBeautiful
      @StrongnBeautiful Před 4 měsíci

      Kinda the same difference.

    • @smhunney8266
      @smhunney8266 Před měsícem

      ​@@jeangumbs7172that's the easy part. Politics is what's killing the island

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    @rashidaokolo2893 Před 3 měsíci

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