Nerd on the left is cynical about everything she's saying. I'm Sioux Indian from South Dakota, about 70 miles from where I'm sitting right now, is a mammoth kill site on the Pine Ridge Reservation.., it's been carbon dated to 13,600 years ago +-300 hundred years. It has numerous stone points embedded in the bones of the mammoths.

In the 1800’s, my full blooded native ancestors were alive and well in Southwestern Ky.

@willmolina7395

3 ай бұрын

I'm a Californian born and raised in Los Angeles... With all due respect, could you please answer , why the question, " natives in Kentucky".?? I would just assume they were always there.. is there something I've missed ??.

@user-gl9jc2xu3z

3 ай бұрын

@@willmolina7395 they were always in Ky according to artifacts. Someone wrote a book about Ky, claiming it never had “Indians”, before it reached statehood. There were 38 tribes who lived in Ky. Daniel Boone was my ancestor uncle. That’s how long I had family in the region. There weren’t many white people living there back in the day. White people were not from Ky, and the native people were here first going back 13,000 years.

@woodspirit98

3 ай бұрын

​@@user-gl9jc2xu3z can you name those 38 tribes?

@user-gl9jc2xu3z

3 ай бұрын

@@woodspirit98 they can be found on a Google search or under early native Americans of Ky.

@bruanlokisson8615

2 ай бұрын

But not in central KY, because your ancestors committed the genocide of the Mound builders. You sound like an Arab, claiming the land because you killed the original dwellers so there is no one left to dispute it.

John Finley, a licensed trader to the Shawnee, was at the Shawnee village of Eskippakithiki in eastern Clark Co, KY in 1752. This village is well documented by archeology. Also, at the earliest trips of white explorers on the Ohio, they passed a large Shawnee village at the mouth of the Scioto River (Portsmouth, Oh). This village extended across the river into Kentucky. Also, Native families were reported by white captives to disperse by families from large villages in the winter in order to subsist by hunting. These dispersed family groups were probably subsisting (living) in Kentucky.

@bruanlokisson8615

2 ай бұрын

Yet you fail to mention that only 30 years before that there was no village there as the Shawnee only recently had moved southwards out of Pennsylvania.

I live in Kentucky. In this area it seems there existed a giant woodland period village. There is a commonality among the tool types including reed pottery, beads, and a hide scrapper that is made with a particular style I've not saw elsewhere. It is my opinion there is evidence of a large population with a common culture. It could be a proper contender for Daniel and Squire Boones "Meaowland" village of 20 thousand. I'm in the bluegrass, located in the direct center of a ancient Buffalo trace and because of a meteor strike 200 million years ago the deep ground water sources where all pushed close to the surface resulting in springs that never run dry. Water and a never-ending supply of food and animal resources certainly would be hard to pass up for any prehistoric individuals.

Had a dear childhood friend whose large family was Indian from KY, and they moved back because they missed it so. Learned neat things, including lack of money didn't mean poor as they had much love, and that I loved homemade Sarsparilla Tea! (Even if it's said to be toxic now.) Very grateful for our time and wish we'd had more time together as they all made much more sense to me than many I've met since. Bless you L Clan! 🙏🕊️🪶

Of course native Americans lived in Kentucky.

I'm trained and certified to conduct arch. surveys on timber projects, but as a kid I picked up everything and had no idea how much information I was destroying by taking items home and putting them in my collection. I also have items that ranchers and other landowners have given to me over the years that they found somewhere on their land. We are far more aware of this issue now. My ancestors were "Long Hunters" from Southwestern Virginia and they crossed paths with Shawnee and other natives on their own hunting trips. They seemed to always report that settlements were mostly to the west in the Ohio river valley. Several famous abductions confirmed that prisoners were taken to the Little Miami River area etc.

I never believed native people didn't live in Kentucky. When I was much younger, i used to hunt for artifacts and the stuff i found led me to think that people did in fact live in Kentucky in a full time basis.

As far as I can tell, the Absentee Shawnee still hold title to Louisville. Why am I paying taxes to Greenburg and the Republican KY legislature instead of the Absentee Shawnee?

We were taught in Kentucky History class, Kentucky was called the dark and bloody ground, because so many different tribes fought over it. They supposedly didn't have a lot of permanent settlements because they fought over the best places to settle.

@williamwoody7511

Ай бұрын

I was taught that in Kentucky public schools also.

I learned in fifth grade Kentucky History class way back in 1981 that 90% of Kentuckians with families who were in Kentucky for at least five generations had Native American ancestry. In my case, I know it's true because I have an old family portrait of my great-great-grandmother dating back to the mid-to-late 1800s, and she was very obviously Native American, but what about that statement overall, which was taught to an entire generation of Kentucky Gen Xers in the 80s? Did Kentuckians in the 18th Century essentially absorb a good deal of the Native population in Kentucky?

Not only did the native Americans live in Kentucky. They found 2000 mummies in Lexington Kentucky when they first settled there. It’s in the book the history of Lexington that was written by a historian that lived In the 1800s

I farmed in ky in-the 80s I found a small bucket of arrowheads when i plowed every spring .

Downtown Louisville ky...near Lee st...they found a mammoth with clovis points .about 20 feet in the ground while laying water main pipe..my friend found a clovis in perfect condition near Bardstown ky.i ve got bout 500 pkus points i found myself

Of course native Americans lived in Kentucky. They lived all over America. "Ohio" means "Good River" in Seneca and Kenta Aki means "Land of our Fathers" in Shawnee.

When i was researching my native heritage, i found a map of a landowner in Hart county, mapping out a Indian camp.

@toddpowell7231

3 ай бұрын

I moved to Hart county just over a year ago. My father was born here. We have so many artifacts that come from right here. I would absolutely love to see your map.

probably a lot of archaeolgy around West Liberty, KY - wood lands buffalo roamed thru Blues Lick area.

I was first raised in Paducah KY, named after Chief Paduc , I worked at the TVA plant Shawnee. We literally go arrow head hunting as a pass time. We still have Native barrial mounds you can see driving by. We just don't mess with them out of respect. The name of our state is indigenous.

Big Bone Lick State Park is no longer being excavated but countless mammoths have been excavated from the area. Ancient tribes hunted there because is was a known source of food. People have always lived near their food source at least until it was exhausted. Wild game (deer, turkey, squirrel, etc) is still common. You can literally walk out in your yard and hunt (but it frequently pisses off the neighbors). That's right in Boone County in northern KY.

The original inhabitants were killed off by the surrounding tribes in the 15th century, there are places among the Wabash river just above where it joins the Ohio where a large settlement was massacred and their bones stick out from the banks. I live next to Angel Mounds where there was a city of these Mound builders that were killed off at about the same time. These Mound builders were the last dwellers in what became a no mans land of disputed hunting areas and tribal warfare. I might also mention that there are plenty of contemporary accounts about this area belonging to no tribe. So far every mention made of natives living here all involve villages on the boarders of the old mound builder's territory, which differs from the present boarders of Kentucky.

I'm 63. My great grandfather from Adair Co. used to tell stories about his Granny. He knew her very well and said she was Cherokee. Shows up in our dna.....

@lulumoon6942

Ай бұрын

Many are under the Umbrella of Cherokee because of the consolidation of Tribes.

@MeMyselfAndUs903

Ай бұрын

I’m about your age and my great grandfather was Cherokee. I’ve been trying to find how to spell his last name! Herd / Hurd…etc.

@rebeccacorbin1590

Ай бұрын

@@MeMyselfAndUs903 My great grandfather's last name was Baker. As he comes through my father's mother's side. As the Cherokee comes through a his female grandmother, I have no idea of a surname. It's going to take some more digging.

Kentucky became an exciting, diverse, place!

@woodspirit98

3 ай бұрын

Of course. The Indians were big on diversity and equity.

@hermanhale9258

3 ай бұрын

@@woodspirit98 Well, they got it.

Green River Shell Middens? I don't have the book in front of me but I seem to recall there were not only evidence of seasonal inhabitance, but also that of longer term inhabitance due to the archaeologists finding burial remains that demonstrated a bony anomaly (perhaps in the ear bones?) caused by repeated exposure to cold water (diving for mussels year round).

@gubbeyrecords8178

22 күн бұрын

Bingo. That book is awesome!

I found an arrowhead at a fishing lake in Kentucky

Another good one also saw David Kirkpatrick on into the wild frontier which was a real treat especially his last comment before the show went off

The many infectious diseases that arrived from the Spanish onward decimated not only Central and South America, but North America as well. Before European settlers arrived, wars between Native American peoples also contributed to the depopulation of some areas. In many places, forests have reclaimed the former agricultural areas and thus the forests covered the traces of inhabited areas 300 years earlier (around 1500).

Still living here !

Enjoyed !! 😎👍

Im visiting Kentucky from April to July next year, and this will be my daily KZread channel until then. Do you have any Kentucky related podcast you can recommend ? Thank you for your videos. Greetings from Denmark.

@KentuckyHistoryChannel

23 күн бұрын

Awesome! There’s a lot of history in Kentucky to check out. Probably not as much documented history as Denmark.

I heard that they only hunted and had war in Kentucky, but never permanently lived there.

@MrPitts-zf4qr

28 күн бұрын

Yeah but that’s bs.

Shawnee Indians land were in Kentucky to my knowledge, and James Harrod settled there ,along with other settlers and did have run ins with the Indians several times.James Harrod and Daniel Boone made their mark in Kentucky.. great history.. thanks for sharing

@woodspirit98

3 ай бұрын

Which Shawnee villages were in Kentucky?

@user-gl9jc2xu3z

2 ай бұрын

Samuel Boone, Daniel’s brother was my 6th great grandfather. Some of my European ancestors were the early pioneer settlers in Ky. My native ancestors were mostly from NC, and relocated to Ky after marriage and the AR.

@standingbear998

2 ай бұрын

it is adam and eves land, they were first.

Which part of " kentucky" are the talking about? Interest was paid to one of the tribes. The whites were told, not one tribe controls the land but they all hunt it. They just dont dwell there. This information can be found by searching the records. Land speculators didnt want " the dark and bloody ground " label getting around. What part of land in the 1700's did they call kentucky as compared to todays, Kentucky. Oral history alone, I was able to track my own family history 240 years based off my grandmothers stories I heard growing up.

@christophereichten9005

3 ай бұрын

Not the narrative you’re used to? Does the history not conform to your preconceived beliefs?

@woodspirit98

3 ай бұрын

Actually he's right. Many tribes used the land for hunting but not to permanently inhabit. That's the history. Not your narrative. Show us the facts. Arrowheads are proof of hunting. Not villages.

@christophereichten9005

3 ай бұрын

@@woodspirit98 You are not a historian. You never trained as a historian. You don’t get to make claims about history when you haven’t earned your credentials. If you like to opine about blue collar labor or farming then go ahead.

@WoodsmanHobo777

25 күн бұрын

​@@christophereichten9005 a person doesn't need credentials or certifications to know about things

@christophereichten9005

25 күн бұрын

@@WoodsmanHobo777 True but they won’t be taken seriously in a profession. Now GFY

In my opinion, it would be very ignorant for modern-day people to think that Native Americans had never lived in Kentucky. In a comical since it is as if they must think the NA had named the lands and fenced off KY 1000s of years ago and put signs on the border fence saying something like: "Do not enter this here soil called Kentucky, but you can live along the fence in WV, Ohio, Indiana, Tenn, Ill., but NEVER, I mean never cross the border into KY" 🤣🙄 My one line of NA ancestors migrated into eastern KY from eastern TN. Im not sure why they did, but I have often thought that it might have been to get farther away from all the Trail Of Tears crap going on, which affected more tribes than just the Cherokee. That line of my family was mixed with black as well. They were most likely the possible decendants of our Melungeon ancestors, but I truly do not know for sure.

Natives lived in every US state.

@lulumoon6942

Ай бұрын

Long before the white man had states or the Internet to justify it .

My great grandma was a full blooded Cherokee

Kentucky has some of the most beautiful land in all of America so yes they definitely lived here

No one had this myth in my old neighborhood Garden Springs in Lexington! Many people claimed native ancestors, and we used to search for arrowheads in the park-grew up in the 1970s

@MrPitts-zf4qr

28 күн бұрын

Same I’m appalled people have thought this

Of course Native people lived in Kentucky. Obviously.

Also the map was found in a file at the heritage center in Frankfort.

Check the Archives. What about the THE MASSACRE OF THE CHEROKEE INDIANS AT YAHOO FALLS, Whitney Co., KY/TN, my ancestor Chief Peter Troxell was there, his father was a Delaware Indian Trader on the Jordan River in MD/PA Trader.

@MrPitts-zf4qr

28 күн бұрын

Nice Ty for sharing. I think op should check the archives of Lexington as well. We found 2000 mummies here in the late 1700s

yes they did because down at Rough River there is a missing village that people keep looking for that has disappeared. also on my cousin land ive found arrow heads and stone tools around a cave.

I'm 66 years old and my mom was from Magnolia Kentucky. Her grandmother was full blooded Cherokee.

Many Indian nations have multiple stories of the Giants that inhabited the Land and their interactions which were usually combative. Books of Enoch and the book of Giants described the Giants as being two miles tall and would bring credence to the devil's rock formation being the base of a tree during that time. Our Napoleon complexes are still a big reason for our refusal to actually believe what archeology has clearly been demonstrating in the technology and the magnitude of the structures built in ancient times.

@lulumoon6942

Ай бұрын

Not to mention inconvenientl evidence burying.

@WoodsmanHobo777

25 күн бұрын

Very true, these folks in the video are talking about Kentucky in the last five hundred years. There absolutely was giants not only in KY but all around the country and world thousands of years ago. The giants are the offspring of fallen angels and human women.

@neilhaverly4117

25 күн бұрын

@@WoodsmanHobo777 I am in the Poconos area now and there are many pre Aztec buildings including a zigarat in honesdale

Can anyone help me determine the spelling my great grandfather’s last name of herd or Hurd or otherwise. He was Cherokee and I believe he was in Pike County.

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Native americans lived all across america.

The real problem with asserting that Indians lived in Kentucky on a permanent basis (not War, Hunting, or Transient) is that the earliest Explorers who came into and explored Kentucky never recorded any contact with Indian Tribal Villages. And the Indians themselves told the easiest settlers that the land was contested on a continual basis. However long into the deep past Indians may have lived in Kentucky on a permanent basis, uts pretty clear that in the period of European settlement in the 1600s (French) and 1700s (English) did not live on a permanent basis. If any archeological evidence has been found to contradict this first hand testimony, then perhaps you should document this evidence. Perhaps ask the woman who you interviewed to put together a Vidro where she presents this evidence she claims. And the reason for not living in Kentucky may be the same as many lands in the Old World or Central America were abandoned for crnturies: War, Famine, Plagues and Climate Change. I'd be interested in hearing it.

My wife has strong native American features. I would be interested to see her DNA tested. My ancestors on the other hand have been here since the late 1700's and as far as I know we are 99% European ancestry.

Cheif goldenhawk is buried just 4 miles from my house he is also my great great uncle lots of others in the same grave yard

Why wouldn't they?

What a bizarre question?

Wyckliff Mounds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ask Daniel Boone

So what about the Giant Skeletons that were found in mounds?

Raids by Shawnees were the reasons my Dutch ancestors left KY and never came back! I guess they would have been safer if they settled on the other side of the Ohio River all along. When they were building their colony down there, how were they supposed to know they were living in their "hunting grounds"?

@jeannie5389

29 күн бұрын

For your information, the Lower Dutch Colony was in Henry Co., KY early 1800.

@MrPitts-zf4qr

28 күн бұрын

Kentucky wasn’t their hunting grounds they lived here as swell

@impalaman9707

28 күн бұрын

@@MrPitts-zf4qr but the Dutch didn't know that.

@MrPitts-zf4qr

28 күн бұрын

@@impalaman9707 they definitely did when they started to get get attacked.

Most likely before they probably were forced to move.

what about Atlatls?

No arrow heads did not start 700 years after death.

I’m so confused why does he doubt native Americans where here in Kentucky when there constantly in other stories he’s talking about.

everyone need to look the meaning of the word native before using it. I was born in Ky therefore am a native

You had me at giants. But seriously I am 50 and only heard this myth recently.

The thumbnail is insulting to my intelligence....

I thought everyone knew that thay lived there I dident even know this was a question

Is this really a question…… I think it’s obvious just based off yer average person that owns land in the right area and knows what to look fur. Take care

Is this really a question people have?

@lulumoon6942

Ай бұрын

Suspect part of the problem is Western/modern interpretation. It has been said that at that time "KY" area was hunting land by tribes, but this agreement not by lawyers can be confusing to some.

@MOEMUGGY

Ай бұрын

@@lulumoon6942 Yup, those mounds built in KY must have been built one wheelbarrow full at a time when the Natives were on hunting trips, huh? No native could possibly have lived in KY, because they were all in agreement it was shared hunting ground. (rolls eyes)

Bwah haha 😂 What a title… did they? Hahaha. We have been here for 300 years. People have been here (including KY) for 10’s of thousands of years. Paleolithic peoples artifacts are very different than more modern Native Americans. They made So much more than weapons. Believing that they only made weapons goes back to the colonist way of calling them savages. It’s easier to call them savages if you think that all they ever did was made arrowheads. I’ve been studying the art of the ancient inhabitants for just 2 years, and I see we know nothing of the people who were here before -and the State archaeologists actively discourage you to learn more.

You can't tell me people didn't figure out bows and arrows before 700ad....thats just non-sense.

Yeah sure….only had bows from 700 AD….yeah definitely

Is this a serious question? Where else would they live? The moon?

That seems like a ridiculous question

the ancient egyptians and chinese founded kentucky and told Columbus how to get to the Capitol of Ohio.

@MrPitts-zf4qr

28 күн бұрын

That might explain the mummies found in Lexington

Giants did reside not only in KY but across the the whole country and world. They were on earth thousands of years ago. They were the offspring of angels and human woman.

Seriously???

@christophereichten9005

3 ай бұрын

Go back to your hovel and leave history to those with an education.

With apologies to Willey and Philips, archaeology is context or it is nothing.

Are you really so naive to think the natives didn't live in any one particular state??

Native to what? The DNA shows the American Indians came from Asia.

@jeannie5389

29 күн бұрын

Don't you think THE LEFT lied...

@jeannie5389

29 күн бұрын

Don't you think THE LEFT lied...

What's the point? Why is the geek giggling? Is he also, say, a flat earther? Or maybe he believes the universe is 6,000 years old.

the most uneducated, REDICULOUS question ~

NOOooooo, Kentucky was Mexican.

No writing = no history. Hegel was right. This woman is questionable...

What a STUPID TITLE, sounded like my 3rd grade lieing teacher that argued with me over arrowheads we found in our garden!! 😂

You have no clue on my people

@woodspirit98

3 ай бұрын

Your people? You own people?

This lady is quite embarrassing. Offers up a strawman argument that I’ve neither hear nor read, any scholarly researcher arguing. Then at the 10:30 mark, reveals she’s doesn’t have sufficient evidence to support her claim. Is she disputing the settlers descriptions of no visible permanent contemporary settlement of Kentucky (1760-1800) If that’s here issue, the settlers perspective is perfectly valid. Kentucky at the time of settlement was free of Indian villages. However, the same people recorded location of ancient Indian settlements, artifacts and pictographs. I’m not sure what she’s trying to “make clear, by not being exasperated “.

@highdesert-boy

3 ай бұрын

What is embarrassing is that the myth of unoccupied Kentucky is still being passed from generation to generation. The issue now is not to demand that archaeologists prove the myth is wrong but that those who still hold to the false notion of unoccupied Kentucky come up with hard evidence that their story is true.

@MrPitts-zf4qr

28 күн бұрын

I think it’s even more embarrassing are host asked if native Americans lived here in my. They definitely did.

This was painful to listen to.

That is a really stupid question

NO THEY DIDNT, HOW STUPID IS THAT.

Native people?

So what the fuck happened to general Custer 😂😂😂😂😂