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@krisn.9000

2 жыл бұрын

I really would love to know what he said after "That's where earth mother comes into play, morning star" Cut???? @ 26:05 Thank you 🙏

@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449

2 жыл бұрын

@@krisn.9000 hello and thanks for watching! The only edit I made there was edit out a brief pause and so luckily you didn’t miss anything I promise!

@krisn.9000

2 жыл бұрын

@@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449 Great content and guest! Thanks and keep up the good work!!

@hallowacko

2 жыл бұрын

HOLY SHIT YES. Can't wait to hear this.

@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449

2 жыл бұрын

@@krisn.9000 will do!!

This is part of our American legacy and should be taught to humanity. Pre Columbus history is American history. 🇲🇦🇺🇸☪️

@dmendez4741

2 жыл бұрын

Um it was taught in my school, esp the history of the tribes native to my state

@vinnie39

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe you should've paid more attention when you were in school.

@commanderpinnacles

2 жыл бұрын

@@vinnie39 this isn’t even kinda taught in school

@vinnie39

2 жыл бұрын

@@commanderpinnacles 10th grade social studies.

@daron6616

2 жыл бұрын

This is when American history truly begins.

While I'm not from this region or people (I am from Atlantic Canada and am Mi'kmaq) I highly appreciate you shining light on how rich Native American history and culture is

@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for commenting Dylan and for showing your support! I think that KZread needs more Native American History and Culture it is an honor to do what we can to help. Also check out Ancient Americas on KZread as well. Pete is fantastic!

@IamwhoIam333

2 жыл бұрын

I read my Bible AND what people forget Jersuelm was not the only thriving civilization. Joseph lived as an Egyptian and Moses was raised by Egyptian woman. They forget the rest of the world and the civilization's that existed all around the World. They all have a story to tell. It's okay with God to take your BLINDERS OFF .

@muthrfuqrjonz3530

2 жыл бұрын

Native American. Wrong. Indian culture and history. You’re an Indian. Stop with the PC bullshit

@mandalor45

2 жыл бұрын

@@muthrfuqrjonz3530 the only reason the term Indian is used cause Columbus was dumb and thought he found India.

@PersonaNonGrata666

2 жыл бұрын

@@muthrfuqrjonz3530 I also get upset with trivial things like a remedial child.

Mississippi is the soil where the roots of my family tree is planted, therefore will always be sacred to to me. Shout out to all my fellow my Choctaw descendants 💪🏽

@chickchoc

2 ай бұрын

Chickasaw and Choctaw here. Our ancestors were just as sophisticated as the Europeans of the time but were deemed savages by the ignorant explorers and colonists. Thank goodness the truth is finally beginning to be told.

You did an amazing job putting this together. I am beyond humbled that you used some of my footage.

@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching Leah! I also made sure to provide attribution in the description as well. I will be doing more on the Ancient Mississippians and so if you allow I’ll happily use more of that footage again. Great work!

@leah890

2 жыл бұрын

Gladly. If you would like more I would happily go back

@poppygirl...

2 жыл бұрын

👍👍💯🤎🤎🤎

Lived about 10 miles from Moundville for a short time. I miss being able to go there whenever I had a day off, and nothing to do. It's just so beautiful and it gives off some feeling that I can't really explain.

@steph5494

2 жыл бұрын

Definitely not a dark place.

You did an amazing job putting this together. Much respect as much of my family history starts in Mississippi in North America.

@princessdaniels9450

2 жыл бұрын

Mines as Well as Georgia…. Daniels/Enoch/Brown/Biggs

@princessdaniels9450

2 жыл бұрын

Choctaw,Chickasaw & Geechie

@jzj2212

2 жыл бұрын

I’m from Greenville and winterville is outside my hometown in which a lot of Indian graveyards are there

@LuisRamirez-vv4dk

2 жыл бұрын

There were no blacks here prior to colonization.

@tophers3756

2 жыл бұрын

Mississippian isn't synonymous with Mississippi. It was centered north of that state.

I AM a direct Mississippian Descendant. My granny n grandaddy migrated from Mississippi into Arkansas and stayed along the Mississippi River. We still go back to Mississippi for our Reunions and we hold a big one in Arkansas also. Ase

I believe the groups like the Maya and early southern Mexico tribes had some type of influence on the mound builders in America.

It’s amazing to me how many cultures around the world build pyramids.

@Stormcloakvictory

2 жыл бұрын

Kids tend to build wide base up with lego's and blocks, so I'm not very surprised tbh. As it's one of the very first lessons we learn about foundations via trial by error. I would be surprised if most weren't built like that.

@shaggyrumplenutz1610

2 жыл бұрын

Look up the pyramid belt. Also check out the sizes of the bases of The Great Pyramid and The Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihucaun.

@thatguyronwaiters6485

2 жыл бұрын

Not a pyramid lol pyramids are only in Africa looks similar though

@meb777

2 жыл бұрын

@@thatguyronwaiters6485 there are pyramids in South America. They are older than the ones in Africa and larger.

@thatguyronwaiters6485

2 жыл бұрын

@@meb777 larger but they are not pyramids lol but okay beautiful buildings and they are not older either no one knows how old they are some say 3,000/5,000 and 7,000 I think 7 or older

Indigenous Turtle Island architecture and spirituality is just so beautiful ❤️‍🔥 also!! Mississippi sounds like the Plains Cree/paskwâwinîmowin word “misi~sîpiy ᒥᓯᓰᐱᕀ” meaning “The Great River”!! Lots of love from SK 🌊 🌺🍁🌾🪨🌲🇨🇦

How synchronistic I was literally arguing with someone ignorant that said Greece had more history than the Americas specifically Mexico and I said I'd be willing to pit the Mississippi River alone against all of Greece, thank you for Shining light on the subject matter.

@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449

2 жыл бұрын

I can't tell you how often I experience that as well. We are still fighting that Eurocentric bias that attempts to ignore the awesome history of Native America. Thanks for watching and for commenting!

@7ShadowMaiden7

2 жыл бұрын

how ignorant of them! every culture has so much rich history it is so ignorant to try to keep putting them all against each other when they're so beautiful and unique in their own rights thank you for your comment! love this channel and video

@theunforgivenpuritan4102

2 жыл бұрын

@@7ShadowMaiden7 well said

@TheDanEdwards

2 жыл бұрын

​@@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449 Yes, we are still very Eurocentric. Yet I will argue that history proper is a function of writing (of some sort, if only iconography), and so humans and their cultures before writing are not really approachable via history, but depends upon archeology. And when one tries to reconstruct a society only from artefacts such as graves we have to acknowledge that our reconstructions can easily be quite in error.

@darylallen2485

2 жыл бұрын

Lol, last time I checked the age of the earth is the same for every place on the earth!

I live amongst the Mounds of Southern Ohio... Chillicothe, Serpent Mound...they are all over. Estimates are 10,000 mounds in Ohio at the time of westward expansion

@MegaKat

2 жыл бұрын

Grew up in Springfield, we had some out there too

@offthebeatenpath9248

2 жыл бұрын

Lots of Indian culture in Ohio. I'm from this area as well.

@slappy8941

2 жыл бұрын

I've been to Adena gardens in Chillicothe. It's a really nice place.

This was an amazing and very informative instalment in what I hope will be a series on the Americas, an area of history much neglected, fantastic work and kudos to both you Nick and Dr Singleton for bringing this underappreciated topic to our attention I can literally say everything I learned today was completely new to me and while that is wonderful it's also a little sad, thanks to you both.

@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Jason! I completely agree with you which is why I’m happy to say that I’ll be working with Dr. Singleton, the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum and the KZread channel Ancient Americas to bring you the very best that we can dealing with ancient America. Can’t wait!

@LuisRamirez-vv4dk

2 жыл бұрын

@@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449 Why are you allowing people in the comment section to make racist comments towards natives? Natives were not black. You are doing a great disservice to natives not allowing this racism on your channel.

Wonderful episode! Dr. Singleton is a terrific guest and authority and I could listen to him all day long!

@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for joining us and for comment Ancient Americas! Glad you enjoyed it!

@heidyalvarado6017

2 жыл бұрын

@@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449 Its unfornaute he is letting blacks rewrite history on his channel.

Great documentary. I was so glad to hear my question from opening thread few months ago being asked and I was even more surprised by dr. Singleton's answer. He is really open minded and respectful to ancient cultures and their traditions and I'm glad he shared his knowledge with us.

@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449

2 жыл бұрын

I wouldn’t have dared leave it out! Glad you watched it! And thanks for commenting!

Thanks for this informative and interesting look at Native culture and history. I am Sooke Native myself and appreciate any one who takes the time to truly create the proper image of the Native people. I am glad you have made this video and are helping to provide a batter glimpse into the traditions of these people and the truth to their heritage and timelines of their existence. Native culture is a very powerful form of history and invokes much religious and Spiritual intrigue as well as diversity among a large nation of people who once lived in harmony and peace. Thanks again and blessings and peace to you!!

@nojman12

2 жыл бұрын

1828 Definition of American, begs to differ

@ricktherrien8235

2 жыл бұрын

@@nojman12 I was not aware of this and can not make a statement regarding such information as I am not informed.

@missourimongoose8858

2 жыл бұрын

If you would like to take a look at a unknown mississippian site I made a video of one on my channel that's around my families land for a missouria tribe historian I contacted, its got a bunch of red paintings and 2 caves, a native American expert from Washington University said it was a shine to the underwater panther God mishi pishu and after keeping it secret for over 30 years I think it's time some folks know about it

@ricktherrien8235

2 жыл бұрын

@@missourimongoose8858 I will check that out for sure!! Thanks and take good care.

My people. The Choctaw were part of this culture. I have other stories too. Secrets that elders don't like to talk about anymore. You can find these stories in books, but not too many people bother to read these days. You would be surprised at some of the things they used to convert us to Christianity.

@chasejordan9848

2 жыл бұрын

I’m from moundville. I’d love to hear more or even just know the names of the books!

@missourimongoose8858

2 жыл бұрын

If you wanna see an unknown mississippian site I made a video about one that's around my families land, its a big rock bluff with a bunch of red paintings on it with 2 caves that are filled in, we were told it was a shrine to the underwater panther God mishi pishu, we have no idea who to tell about this stuff but I reached out to a missouria tribe historian and made the video for her

@missourimongoose8858

2 жыл бұрын

@@allin77739 look up the book about picture cave its on Amazon, I forgot the ladies name who wrote it but she's written a few books about the mississippians that are good but picture cave is amazing...........unfortunately the site was sold to people other than the Osage tribe recently which sucks in my opinion

@tophers3756

2 жыл бұрын

The Choctaw identity and culture formed after the actual Mississippian culture faded into history.

@missourimongoose8858

2 жыл бұрын

@@tophers3756 the mississippians were the parent culture of almost all the tribes from the great lakes to Louisiana all the way over to Alabama so many of the cultural practices the later tribes had were just versions of what the mississippians were doing

This is fantastic timing! Work has taken me to the South, and I will use this video to help guide me on visiting and studying these sites!

Oh man I'm so psyched to find such a great channel! What a fabulous and educational video. ❤️❤️❤️

I LOVE learning about pre-Columbian America. Used to live near Cahokia and it is a fascinating area.

I love North American history. BTW I saw an article about you online yesterday or the day before, I'm struggling to remember who you talked to. This channel is one of my favorites. Mesoamerican history is also awesome.

@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449

2 жыл бұрын

I do as well Sean, Native North American History doesn't get enough focus and love on KZread. Yes! That was on Forbes titled KZread Channel Tackles Ancient and Medieval History, I was so excited that it happened. We have more native history coming your way! Thanks for watching!!!

@Sean12248

2 жыл бұрын

@@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449 Did they contact you or vice-versa? I wad just surprised as hell to see someone I'm subbed to be interviewed. You're on par with History Time channel. It be awesome if both channels did a special or something.

Fascinating and insightful. Love the 'big picture' presentation around religion and culture in general, which in itself highlights the deep global connections. So glad to hear from other than Clovis First. That 'land bridge' recent migration idea for the peopling of the Americas has never made sense, and the quicker it's relegated to the dustbin the quicker we'll begin understanding what actually occurred.

@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449

2 жыл бұрын

As always I’m happy to have you with us Daniel! I always look forward to reading your comments. Thanks for watching!

@liamwinter4512

2 жыл бұрын

You should look into the pyramid complex in southern Peru that is roughly 2000 years older than any known pyramid in history. I bet human civilization is way older than thought of but just didn't rise above a certain threshold.

@charliemike13

2 жыл бұрын

@@liamwinter4512 I have a feeling it’s way younger.

Great great episode. Learned alot from this episode. Thanks so much for sharing this episode

kia ora from Aotearoa. thanks so much for shedding light on this kaupapa. you have a new sub now. thoroughly enjoyed this

What a fascinating programme! Informative, no wild suppositions, and the assumption that your audience is intelligent. Can't wait to watch more episodes 🙂

@tmac820

2 жыл бұрын

Yes we are very intelligent enough to know this so called Dr Singleton is telling 10 percent truth and 90 percent lies trying to white wash our native history

I have never seen a documentary that included Cahokia Mounds, which I live next to. Thanks for making one!

@robertayoder2063

2 жыл бұрын

Well theirs alot

@missourimongoose8858

2 жыл бұрын

You should look up picture cave in mid missouri

Incredible discussion, thank you!

Awesome! I particularly enjoyed the opening montage. Gorgeous and relaxing.

@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Eli! I think this was my longest intro to date! As always happy to have you with us!

@elihinze3161

2 жыл бұрын

@@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449 The effort definitely paid off!! And thank you, happy to be here :)

Great video! I love native history and your videos are some of the best, most comprehensive KZread videos on the subject I’ve seen. Well done sir.

@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Wayward! I really appreciate this compliment. I do recommend Ancient Americas KZread channel as well. That guys knowledge puts me to shame.

Much respect to Dr. Singleton and to this channel for covering an important and misunderstood culture. I'm proud of my Muskogee heritage and of my connections to Missisippian locales in North Florida. However, having lived in Australia for the past decade and more, I feel that Dr. Singleton should perhaps learn a bit about the world's oldest culture outside of Africa, that of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. Like First Nations peoples in the Americas, First Nations Australians lived closely with nature, tending the land to make it a place well-suited to human habitation for some 60,000 years. White Australians are now having to take note of this hard-won knowledge in order to revitalise our land and to mitigate the impact of bush fires.

@missourimongoose8858

2 жыл бұрын

If you would like to take a look at a unknown mississippian site I made a video of one on my channel thats around my families property for a missouria tribe historian, its a big rock bluff with red paintings of people, dogs, some wolf headed thing and 2 caves that are filled in, I think it's time to let people know what's out there because my family and a few around our area have kept this site secret for over 30 years because we have no idea who to tell

@ChillWill2050

Жыл бұрын

The First Nations In America came from Africa… so…

@johnnyswatts

Жыл бұрын

@@ChillWill2050 ultimately everyone did, but we see many more similarities between first peoples in the Americas with indigenous peoples of Siberia than we do with the extremely diverse peoples of Africa.

what an great informative and respectful lecture. I love how he recognises the depth of knowing these people had, Knowing not with the mental mind, but beyond

Just found my favorite new youtube channel to hyper-fixate on. 😉 thank you for your time and hard work put into these videos.

The most fabulous thing that amaze me is the striking similarity between Danube valley culture and Mississipi culture.

@samuelbradley3625

2 жыл бұрын

@J. C. According to historian David McRitchie in Ancient and Modern Britain's, the word Dan or Don means brown relating to the little brown people who inhabited the area first

Yeah those mounds, hills, cliffs, mountains, and bumps are all very giving

@cherryscarlett

2 жыл бұрын

In the Primordial Civilization the *Con* (cone), a dome-like mound, used to be the "Cone of Leadership" (Conducere / Leading) ..which the chosen leader would use as a "Throne Hill" (mount) Often, the highest Leaders of these ancient cultures used pyramids the same way.. their throne was on the top, of the "Cone" (pyramid, if it has sides for stability at higher floors / greater heights than normal mounds made of earth) ..where their people or officials (state workers or administration or warlords or petitioners), would climb the stairs for a direct audience with the highest authority of the land / nation / people The main use of the Heights in both the Cone (Barbari-Kon, or Perperikon of Bulgarian Pelasgia, used for the same "Capital City" kind of purpose of centralized powerful leadership of ancient balkanic Thrace), and the pyramids.. was *Defense* Kind of hard to attack someone who had the high ground, and to encircle and surround them was nigh-on impossible, since they could _escape down the other side of the Cone_ Example of this powerful word meaning, in ancient Ireland is "Connaught", which meant it was central in regional or local leadership. These formations are evidence of the Self-Leading peoples that lived here, and _that they all had a single Origin / Vatra / Motherland_ Even Buddha chose the peaks of Tibet to live as an ascetic wiseman and to symbolize his spiritual status as a "leader of wisdom & cultural heritage" ..which is why ancient people looked up to Heights (tall mountains or hilltops like Alps - "Olympus") as being *Sacred* Yes, the culture of Eden {Adamic Age of Eros / Titans} was preserved in Vinland before the Templar - Columbus - Atlantean (Aztec-Mayan) invasions..

@cherryscarlett

2 жыл бұрын

Conac (similar to Connacht / Connaught) means _landlord mansion_ and was the residence of Aryan aristocracy in barbarian Europe (Wallachia/ Dacia) Con-Ak (leading or "Conducãtorii" Aheii, din Aheea)

@KateeAngel

2 жыл бұрын

@@cherryscarlett "aryan" 🤦 Someone still is into nazi pseudoscience

Thank you!! Thank you Both so much!! This was very educational & EXTREMELY interesting.. I absolutely loved it ❤

Great information that's presented in an interesting format! Kudos!

Kolomoki mounds in southwest georgia are interesting if you are ever in the area.

They used to fight and kill each other all the time. They didn't sit around smoking weed and listening to flute music.

@keeperofthedomus7654

2 жыл бұрын

Crazy to say there were no diseases. In fact it’s very Eurocentric of him to say that because they had no Eurasian diseases therefore they had no disease. 😂

@mfun503

2 жыл бұрын

Just like any other civilization. Doesn't mean there's nothing to learn or appreciate.

@markothwriter

2 жыл бұрын

@@mfun503 oh sure. I appreciate native american culture. I grew up just off the Oglala Sioux Reservation - Pine Ridge - but I have a realistic picture of what was before the Europeans arrived

Thanks Dr Singleton, you've given a wonderful lecture. Many things to ponder, it would be lovely to hear more about the three layered universe in greater detail.

I went to the spiro mounds and the setup they had at the cowboy hall of fame! Very nice detailed explanation of everything. Hopefully they find more in the future.

Wow, this is a fantastic documentary! There is is so much to ingest I keep pausing to digest!❤️from Ohio

@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Becky! While editing this video I as well would pause to really take in what Dr. Singleton had to say. Truly awesome mind telling us an equally awesome history.

wow this was amazin!! i feel like i just learn so much about my ancestors! Dr. Eric was very informative, honest and graceful. thanks !

@aittamccarthy4164

2 жыл бұрын

Likewise 👑🥰🌹

@zache.1226

2 жыл бұрын

If you’re Native American then I’m George Washington 🤣

@LadyScorpiusTarot

2 жыл бұрын

@@zache.1226 you are lookin at the original woman were ARE NOT NATIVE AMERICANS we are ABORIGINES 😘

@LuisRamirez-vv4dk

2 жыл бұрын

These are not your ancestor. You are not native american or american indian.

@heidyalvarado6017

2 жыл бұрын

@@LadyScorpiusTarot No you are not. There were no blacks here before colonization. Your roots are in africa.

Fantastic and fascinating! Louisiana native and always wanted to know about the Indian Mounds! Great video!

Niyawe. Hello thank you for your work. I ask about the poster you show of the cosmology with the tree of life in the middle and the thunderbird person in the upper right hand corner. Where is that from, how does one get a copy? Again I appreciate your work, Thank you so much!

Awwwww! I can’t watch this right now but as soon as I get home I know what I’m doing!!!

@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449

2 жыл бұрын

Excellent! Thank you Chris!

Yes, I played Spyro as a kid, but I don't remember seeing that guy in the game 🤔😋 So interesting how people who had no contact with each other all somehow believed in multiple "dimensions" to our universe, aka heaven and hell or some kind of cosmic afterlife... they believed in reincarnation and the ability to travel to these places through portals...so eerie that they can have so much in common with other ancient religions literally EVERYWHERE.

Wonderfully illuminating! Thanks Nick.🕊✌️😁👍🕊

I'm Cree from Northwestern Alberta. There is a oral history, but alot has been lost! My late grandparents said we've lost so much as each generation goes on, at least 250 years for us! 😔 In my western 'y' dialect we say 'mistahi-sipi (great river) , we say approach a large river we say 'mis-sipi' , older cree is' mis-si-sipi' ....So yeah saying 'the missisipi 'is cree, and other related Algonquin language groups👍

Good interview and more would be appreciated. 😃

@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Tim! I think you’ll love what we have coming next month!

De soto wrote of many villages and large towns. Florida, home of the first cowboys

Great stuff ! More please!

Absolutely loved this programme can't thank you enough for the enlightenment on my favourite period in history stay safe everyone

Good info but... The flute music has become such a trope. Is it not possible to have a presentation on *anything* related to Native Americans without it?

@citrusblast4372

2 жыл бұрын

I get what you mean, i tried lookin for other kinds of melodic instruments but its mostly drums, shakers, etc. There was a fiddle like instrument but idk

@mjinba07

2 жыл бұрын

What I'd really like to hear, if audio track is necessary at all, are sounds that would naturally match the picture. Accompanying urban scenes, maybe the sound of busy, unintelligible voices and foot traffic. Accompanying natural settings, the sounds of breezes over the grass, birds, maybe some distant voices, dogs barking... That way, we can associate ancient Native cultures with, well, regular cultures. Not some romanticized image of peace and tranquility.

Just started tutiledge for Native American Medicine Work, this was a very nice compliment to my teachings

Thank you. You have advanced my work with NEW info!!!

Very informative brilliant information about are historical facts about are history . Thank you ❤️✨✨

Look around 🙌🏽

Who else in here is from Mississippi 🔥 especially with native ancestry 😂

Extremely interesting. Thank you.

Your music is soothing as well as your presentation

@Study of Antiquity and the Middle Ages Ok finally got home and watched this and I gotta say I’m kinda sorta disappointed you guys didn’t talk more about Mississippian human sacrifice. It happened way more than this archeologist says and not just at Cahokia. Just at Mound 72 public human sacrifices, mostly of young women, took place on at least 6 occasions, over about 150 years. Each one more grisly than the last. In the final burial, people from a Cahokian sub population were lined up in front of a pit, and clubbed on the head and shot with arrows, and a couple weren’t dead yet and got buried alive. Then people wrapped up in shrouds and placed on stretchers are buried ontop of them (presumably Cahokian nobles, they were genetically tested and found to be similar but different from the executed). There were 4 headless and handless men buried side by side with their arms wrapped together in another pit. 52 young women and 1 old woman in another pit. All these sacrifices are 20 yards away from and oriented within the mound towards the “Beaded Burial”, where a man and a woman were placed above and below a falcon blanket made of thousands of shell beads from the Gulf of Mexico. But that was just one event. Sacrifices occurred in Mound 72 before and after that. Im convinced that this was a Great Sun, buried ontop of his Queen circa 1050AD and at least one of the mass females sacrifices happened right after their death. A retainer or something drank some sort of poison right next to the royal bodies and fell down face first breaking his freakin poison jar under him. At Dickson Mounds around Peoria, IL at about the same time there was another headless and handless arms wrapped together 4some. At a bunch of different sites there are young girls thrown into the bottom of pits dug for the placement of totem poles. The Natchez sacrificed people when their one rulers known as Great Suns died. Tunica women were once seen throwing their babies onto the eternal fire in a panic during a solar eclipse. When Desoto died the local ruler offered to sacrifice two dudes to accompany him to the afterlife. In the Junkyard mound at Cahokia a woman was sacrificed and quickly buried while-she-was-giving-birth! You really need to make a video just on this topic because it’s fascinating and the guy just kinda glosses it over and says, “oh it wasn’t as bad as ancient Sumer” so he can keep alive this fantasy that ancient North America was some kind of paradise and the warfare was small scale. It was not. You could do a whole video on the Crow Creek village massacre site 1350AD too. That was basically an extermination. Almost every Indian village that wasn’t a seasonal camp, had a wooden palisade around it, sometimes with regular bastions around them, some even with ditches and moats.

@alexanderm8880

2 жыл бұрын

It's not the same geographical area but you could also bring up the raiding culture of the Iroquois federation

@chrisamon4551

2 жыл бұрын

@@alexanderm8880 Definitely. I’m pretty sure the Iroquoian tribes were heavily influenced by the Mississippians

@chrisamon4551

2 жыл бұрын

@Gary Allenthe comparison of Mississippians/Maya/Aztecs to Ancient Greece is very apt. Ancient people everywhere were constantly at war, every single summer. At the Norris Farms 23 site, around Peoria, IL, I think something like 1 out of every 3 skeletons show evidence of violent trauma on the very bones. If you dig through a modern cemetery, idk maybe 3 out of every 100 skeletons might show evidence of violence? Mississippian art is littered with violent imagery, commonly bird-man priests, dancing around with a severed head. Often the head has the weeping eye or falcon motif, showing the victim was a warrior. Or the conquering warrior figurine-pipe found at Spiro (but made at Cahokia) showing a Mississippian king in full armor, with a shield, executing a naked dude crouched on the ground by bashing his head in with a club. imgur.com/a/r6cD33Q

@qboxer

2 жыл бұрын

@@chrisamon4551 thank you all, I did not know about any of this

@sabinadonofrio8863

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for expanding on this topic. I would be angry at this gloss over also. After all, he's just a white boy trying to explain indigenous history. I'm well educated and studied and researched histories on my own. But, I was never aware of the term mississippian culture and civilization. Are you familiar with the theory that Egyptians traveled to the mississippi area and established communities there.? All this stuff oddly seems to sound very familiarly egyptian. The similarities with egyptian and mississippian culture are quite obvious to me. There is a theory that Cleopatra was aware of a land far to the west and sent her son with a large fleet to cross the atlantic safeguarding her son's life from the political situation at hand. She often sent enormous fleets to search for other lands outside of the Mediterranean for resources and she was well studied in global geography. Always curious.

real spiritual people can feel the truth it doesn't matter what they write

@therealpillventage628

2 жыл бұрын

@Niamh De Na Crainn Arda oral knowledge has been traditional for centuries before colonization get away from me

@therealpillventage628

2 жыл бұрын

@Niamh De Na Crainn Arda some people can't connect to certain things that insight it's obvious something you don't understand so let it go

@therealpillventage628

2 жыл бұрын

@Niamh De Na Crainn Arda you feel left out 😂

@therealpillventage628

2 жыл бұрын

@Niamh De Na Crainn Arda well you go keep trying to figure things out and you have a lovely day cuz I know I am

Thank you for spreading knowledge and truth

Great video and interview!

Would be great to include the indigenous scholars to speak on their own culture.

@SpiciestBee

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-oi8cj9gc4o Great idea!

@Thinkerman22

2 жыл бұрын

Indigenous to Asia

@LuisRamirez-vv4dk

2 жыл бұрын

Natives are not black. Stop it.

@siriuslyspeaking9720

2 жыл бұрын

@@LuisRamirez-vv4dk They certainly are not, but there is the theory that an earlier southern migration out of Melanesia, into the Americas around 40,000 years ago - 20,000 prior to the northern migration out of northern Asia. There are different dates that can be found on these migrations. The presence of any traits of what one might think of as "Black or African people" other than skin darker than Europeans, seems not to exist, in the historical record, other than the Olmec heads, and certainly not any more, during the time of the arrival of the Spanish. The artist rendering of people historically, often are not reflective of how the people actually looked. Features appear to be exaggerated or distorted, but likely most often reflect the limitation of the tools and or the artist. That civilization was in the Americas, prior to the Spanish is unquestioned. Most other points on this issue are socio/politically motivated. Even if the original inhabitants could be considered "Black people, what does that do for "Black people" today, that we can't do for ourselves? So called civilization isn't all it's made out to be. Any child living in the Amazon, could easily learn to survive in modern society. Their offspring would blend in with everyone else, and no one would know their background, if not informed of it.. There has never been that much of a significant difference in any specie or group of human beings, that time could not eventually eliminate. We have to work overtime to point out differences and justify our focus on them.

@LuisRamirez-vv4dk

2 жыл бұрын

You guys love to twist the truth to fit your narrtive and sick agenda.

Thank you, X3, for this! Most of the world, (especially Americans, it seems) think the history of northern America begins with the Revolutionary war. I hope to be traveling across country within the next year and am definitely checking out some of these places. The history of the continent is deep and rich; from Snake mound in Ohio to Cahokia, the megalithic sites in the Hudson valley, to the Anasazi in the Southwest and the Catalina Islanders off California's coast. When I tell someone there is archeological evidence Vikings made it to the Mississippi, I get a blank look. Our school curriculums teach that nothing noteworthy occurred before Columbus, denying young minds a chance to see an ancient site. That is almost a crime to me. I will probably never see Gobekli Tepe, Stonehenge or the pyramids, but I can see what my own country holds from the ancients. To me, that's exciting. Gratitude!✌🏻🐱

@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching Phoenix! I am so jealous of your travels and I wish you a wonderful and safe time!

@chaishalom8701

2 жыл бұрын

I like and agree with your essay. I know that the things that you talked about archaeology sites and the fact that history has been wiped is a real tragedy! And as far as the Vikings go - I have run into a few of them in Idaho!

@PhoenixLyon

2 жыл бұрын

@@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449 Thanks! I love the prehistory more than other types. Our ancestors were incredibly innovative and really deserve more attention than we give them.✌🏻🐱

@PhoenixLyon

2 жыл бұрын

@Gary Allen There is an episode of America Unearthed where they show a runestone marker west of the Mississippi along a tributary of the river. Yes, the Norse artifacts found in Arizona probably got there by transport from a trade made elsewhere. Say what you want about the show, but it made me aware of how much of America's past is never mentioned in history class. It's also given me some places to go see. That alone is a win to me.✌🏻🐱

@chaishalom8701

2 жыл бұрын

@Gary Allen * Ok, however, I have a friend who is Native and Viking on his father's side. They have been here the whole time. His father's people were from Nebraska. So I would have to say that I know that you are incorrect!

I can't wait to visit the museum!

Great interview - thanks for doing it! I'd very much like more information on Cahokia, specifically, if you're thinking of taking a deeper dive into anything here. :D

Another excellent presentation But I personally u am not getting all of my new notifications from KZread

@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching moloch! I appreciate your view and comment!

@moloch3213

2 жыл бұрын

@@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449 you are very welcome keep up with the excellent work

Excellent talk please do another one

Amazing lecture! Ended up with a huge crush on Dr Singleton. 😂

Misread this as Mesopotamian religion and was quite surprised but not disappointed

@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449

2 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha! I can see how that would happen. I do need to do an EP on Mesopotamian religion!

I love reading the comments on native videos. Black ,and white folks start claiming native ancestry ,but hate Mexicans lmao... great video btw.

@heidyalvarado6017

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah theres a lot of blacks claiming to be the real natives also. sad.

@fullmetaljackalope8408

2 жыл бұрын

I can’t believe how hostile this comment section is. I was surprised with all the fighting.

@pigvomit_50..

Жыл бұрын

Those are afrocentric identity cults

excellent discussion of little known history

We're still here. 🌎

Ancient history is always looked at through European concepts those ancients didn’t have religion they had spirituality it’s a big difference.. religion is rituals ceremonies and beliefs that are taught to you that doesn’t exist in every day life…

"You don't have any disease here." How was that accomplished?

@alexanderm8880

2 жыл бұрын

This guy's rose tinted glasses are crimson at this point, lol

@KateeAngel

2 жыл бұрын

Less domestic animals - less disease

@mfun503

2 жыл бұрын

Also different sanitation systems in place. During the middle ages, certain cities in Europe were throwing excrement out the window which caused diseases to abound.

How have I missed this? Dr Singleton, I love you.

Fascinating. And eye-opening.

We are the Aboriginal copper-colored Indians of America and didn't come from Africa. We were already here.

@EternalEmperorofZakuul

2 жыл бұрын

Too bad you aren't related to prominent Indians and do a good job at showing your African heritage

@pigvomit_50..

Жыл бұрын

Your blk azz ain't got nothing to do with native American history you were brought here as slaves from west Africa

@maryhino5296

10 ай бұрын

​@@EternalEmperorofZakuulthey have found no African DNA in any of ancient human remains found in the America's.

@djbop

9 ай бұрын

My whole family and those that you perceive to be African Americans are the Indians. My heritage is from here, Turtle Island (America).

@djbop

9 ай бұрын

Another invader attempting to tell us who we are and spreading a lie.

You do err to say that Al Andalus was peaceful for 800 years. It wasn't even 50.

@alexanderm8880

2 жыл бұрын

You're right on. This guy seems to be projecting his worldview a lot

@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449

2 жыл бұрын

Hey, thanks for commenting! The society of Medieval Iberia under Islam was like most societies during this time. There were incredibly long and peaceful periods that would be briefly interrupted by outbursts of violence.

Thank you Ash, I to am try to collect all Aurora lp's and all different cover and color vinyl even the singles. Good luck on your vinyl journey!

This is a great video. I wonder if you have looked at any of Michael Witzel's recent work on comparative religion? His scheme of Pan-Gaean to Gondwana to Laurasian mythic cycles makes a lot of sense and certainly explains a lot, I think. BTWm, that triune realm is found in Siberian shamanistic belief and featured throughout many European mythical systems. I really enjoy your work.

Lets talk about how the so called "African American"is the Native american/Indian or whatever they wanna call it

@IkceWicasa_7

2 жыл бұрын

Let’s not. Because both of those labels weren’t applied to African Americans.

@BCam41

2 жыл бұрын

Before the US census that was the true identity of the so called African American lol we been here

@IkceWicasa_7

2 жыл бұрын

@@BCam41 The US census came out in 1790. The term “Native American” was applied to my people in the 1960’s by the US government. The term Indian comes from the Spanish phrase una gente en dios -“to live with god”. En dios/ Indios/Indian. After 500 years Spanish speakers still call my people this. What do they call you guys?

@BCam41

2 жыл бұрын

@@IkceWicasa_7 but they have alot of names for my people being there were different tribes there was people of all shades of Browns or Copper color here.No one is truly Black

@IkceWicasa_7

2 жыл бұрын

@@BCam41 Of course you have to bring up skin color. You can call yourself all the colors and labels you want. Us real indigenous people of this landmass go by our own names, not by what others call us. When you know who you are and where you come from such things have no meaning.

We R STILL HERE THEY DID NOT KILL US OUT,,,, MyGreat Great Great Grandma s..... indigenous To THIS LAND WHICH IZ MY ANCESTORS PERIOD & iAM NATIVE CHOCTAW /Chickasaw/ & GEECHIE!!!!! Most of US KNOW WHO WE R & WHERE WE COME FROM& it’s NOT AFRICA!!!!! This IS MY LAND!!! How do u tell US OUR STORY, THIS IS HIS---STORY.....🔥🔥🔥💅🏽💜

@Blackowl44

2 жыл бұрын

Same I’m Choctaw my family owns native land not far from the trail of tears.

@princessdaniels9450

2 жыл бұрын

Really where & what’s ur family last name…. Mines where builders, designers, singers, lawyers. Chief’s, Artistic IZ MY ENTIRE BLOOD LINE!!!! Lol I build, create clothes, do hair, a paralegal & I sing a lil….. So yeah My DNA 🧬 is OUT IF THIZ WORLD & I Am A NATURAL HEALER!!!! I Have Powerz MOST WOULD NEVER FATHOM💅🏽🧝🏽‍♀️

@pigvomit_50..

Жыл бұрын

​@@Blackowl44 your blk azz ain't got nothing to do with native American history. You were brought here as slaves from west Africa

Do you have any links we can follow dr Eric singleton at? Would love to follow more of his work.

I live near the Etowah mounds! They are amazing, and there's a great learning center there, too.

@robertbates6057

7 ай бұрын

They were NOT Cherokee. The Cherokee lived around the St. Lawrence River until the late 17th century.

If you wanna meet a Mississippian, look around, cause we're still here ✌🏿

@EternalEmperorofZakuul

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, living in conditions that resemble Africa

while I don't believe certain things are being said from a place of malice, this is very all over the place and very eurocentric in a lot of places. I think the multiple comparison's to ancient euro cultures is problematic.

Pretty sure this is my favorite thing you guys have done.

This was outstanding.

I appreciate the presentation, but there seems to be a fair bit of romanticising of native culture. At some point Dr. Singleton says it was Eden before the arrival of Europeans. They had wars, but otherwise it was Eden. They had human sacrifice, but otherwise it was Eden. And I don't believe for a second that there was no disease.

@KateeAngel

2 жыл бұрын

Not all disease, but epidemic diseases are rarer when there are less domestic animals. Most epidemic diseases spread from domestic animals to humans, thus cultures with more agricultural animals had more of them

@wimsweden

2 жыл бұрын

@@KateeAngel That's a nuanced position, which I can appreciate and which I would have expected Dr. Singleton to make.

The real true Mississippians are still there he said and aint nothing but so called African Americans thats not Africans at all but indigenous natives to America and everywhere else in America we always have been here and still here

@EternalEmperorofZakuul

2 жыл бұрын

Reminds me how whites have Indian ancestry that goes back to colonialism, and they aren't related to your kind

I did learn about this in middle school, WV history, as that culture was present in what is now WV, hence the town "Moundsville WV". We were told that some of them were very tall

Great show!

Native Americans didn't build the mounds, smh. American Indians or the Aboriginal people of the Americans did. Native Americans are of Asian descent who came across the Bering Strait.

@sahawhegreen8495

2 жыл бұрын

Yea ok

@deborahyoung1873

2 жыл бұрын

@@sahawhegreen8495 he must be one of those idiots who think blacks were here first.lol

Would the Choctaw, Creek and others from the area related to this civilization?

The history of my home state is more fascinating then I ever thought

Thank you, Dr. Singleton and all the people at Study of Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Exquisite presentation on the Mississippian and North American cultures! This subject has been nearly abandoned in this 21st century. And the attempt at revisionist thinking has seemingly pushed for a void to telling the real story of the Americas. I am very glad that you did this! It was a great Sunday learning and relearning experience!