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The recent news about Pete Hegseth shows how history repeats itself. Hegseth wanted to livestream a military execution. He viewed this public cruelty as a righteous act. This is the exact mindset of a Christian Nationalist. But history shows that public brutality never creates peace. It only guarantees a massive backlash.

We can see this clearly by looking at New Mexico in 1680. Spanish colonizers invaded the region in 1598 under Juan de Oñate. They established control through absolute terror. They mutilated resistance fighters and forced the population into slavery. Catholic missionaries and Spanish governors whipped the Pueblo people for decades. They banned native spiritual practices.

The tipping point arrived when a Spanish governor publicly executed and whipped several Pueblo medicine men. This public cruelty backfired immediately. Pueblo warriors marched on the palace and forced the governor to release the remaining prisoners. One of those prisoners was a leader named Po’Pay. He spent five years organizing a coordinated response. On August 10, 1680, the Pueblo people rose up together. They destroyed the Spanish missions and drove the colonizers out of their homeland entirely.

Spanish rulers thought public violence would force compliance. Modern extremists still make the same mistake. Public execution does not project strength. It reveals the panic of an empire that is losing control.

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The White House created a website celebrating Christopher Columbus. Here is the truth they are hiding from you.

On October 12 1492 Columbus landed on Guanahani. He did not discover anything. Up to 125000 Lucayan Taino people already lived there. Their ancestors called that land home for a thousand years. Columbus was not even the first European here because Leif Eriksson beat him by five centuries. Columbus called the locals Indians due to a massive geographical error. He believed he reached Asia and went to his grave never admitting his mistake.

Still the Spanish Crown made him Governor of the Indies. His rule was a nightmare. By 1500 Spanish colonists and priests sent desperate complaints to Spain detailing his tyranny. The monarchs sent royal judge Francisco de Bobadilla to investigate. Bobadilla uncovered widespread atrocities and systemic torture. Columbus used public executions to terrorize his own people. He cut off noses and ears of colonists and sold people into slavery.

The Taino people faced far worse. Columbus shipped thousands of Indigenous people to Spain to be sold as slaves. Vast numbers died on the ocean journey. Those left behind faced forced labor in gold mines. He ordered the dismembered bodies of Native Americans paraded through streets to terrify survivors. Bobadilla was so outraged that he arrested Columbus and locked him in chains. Columbus returned to Spain as a prisoner.

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The White House just launched a new website about Christopher Columbus. Whoever created it plagiarized century old propaganda to erase history.

In 1893 the United States hosted a massive Worlds Fair in Chicago. To impress Europe leaders needed a grand founding myth. They chose Columbus as the ultimate symbol of progress. They built grand white palaces to celebrate white civilization. At the exact same time they put Indigenous peoples in cages as living exhibits.

This deliberate brainwashing forced citizens to link Columbus with the future and Native people with extinction. They even created the Pledge of Allegiance to build aggressive nationalism.

Today the White House website copies this exact propaganda. It treats Native history as an invisible footnote to real American history. This is a dangerous return to Gilded Age nationalism. It relies on a sanitized myth to demand blind obedience.

But we can fight back just like heroes did in 1893. Activists like Simon Pokagon Ida B Wells and Frederick Douglass exposed the brutal truth. True patriots face reality and work to make the nation better.

We can expose them by sharing the truth. In my next video I’ll tell you about the real Christopher Columbus. The stuff the White House doesn’t want you to know.

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Did you know that in 1578, Martin Frobisher held the first recorded Thanksgiving in Canada? There are many stories celebrating European explorers, like Christopher Columbus and Frobisher, who travelled west across the Atlantic to discover America. But there were also thousands of Indigenous Americans who travelled in the opposite direction and discovered Europe.

In 1576, Martin Frobisher, an English privateer who was previously a pirate, was searching for a north west passage to the Pacific. He kidnapped an Inuk man from Baffin Island. During the struggle, the man bit his tongue in half. He was brought to England and shown off as a novelty. He died two weeks later. This was one of the earliest Indigenous Americans in Britain.

In 1577, Frobisher returned to Inuit territory. Arriving at what is now Nunavut, he tried to kidnap more men. The men fled and shot Frobisher in the ass with an arrow. But another crew member tackled one of the men, breaking his ribs in the process.

Then Frobisher’s men got into a battle with the other inhabitants. Three Inuit killed themselves by jumping off the rocks into the ocean because they didn’t want to be taken prisoner. They thought the English were cannibals. Frobisher’s men captured a woman and her baby who had been injured by an arrow.

They sailed back to England, arriving in October 1577, and became a spectacle. The man was called Kalicho, and the woman and her baby were Arnaq and Nutaaq. Kalicho became a celebrity, paddling up and down the river in his canoe and hunting ducks with his dart.

Less than a month later, Kalicho died. His autopsy showed broken ribs and a brain injury likely caused by his rough capture. Arnaq had contracted measles and died three days after Kalicho was buried.

Nutaaq was 14 or 15 months old and still nursing when Arnaq died. He was made a spectacle for curious Londoners, even though he also had the measles. Only 8 days after arriving in London, Nutaaq died.

Instead of celebrating men like Columbus and Frobisher, let’s think about the Indigenous people who were already here for thousands of years when they arrived.

You can read about them in Caroline Dodds Pennock’s book, On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe.

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Twelve hundred years ago in the High Arctic, the Inuit mastered spaceborne technology by hand. All over the world, human history followed similar paths. The Stone Age featured the earliest stone tools. Then people built hot furnaces to melt copper and tin into bronze. Finally came iron, which required intense fire to extract metal from rock. Each step required wood or coal to burn. In the Arctic, trees do not grow and coal was buried deep underground. For thousands of years, the Inuit used bone, driftwood, and rock to survive.

Then the Dorset culture began making iron tools, skipping the Bronze Age entirely. They discovered a meteorite that fell ten thousand years ago in Northern Greenland. The meteorite was made of an iron and nickel alloy. Nickel makes metal tough and resistant to corrosion. This gave them a massive advantage when hunting in freezing seawater.

They travelled fifty kilometres to find volcanic basalt stones to use as hammers. The craftspeople carved thin slots into walrus ivory handles and fitted the overlapping metallic flakes side by side inside the grooves. As wet sinew wrapped around the handle dried and shrank, it locked the blades permanently in place. Archaeologists have tracked this Cape York meteoritic iron thousands of miles away across the Canadian Arctic. It shows how humans everywhere take advantage of available resources, and sometimes those resources are delivered from outer space.

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Colonialism and eugenics go hand in hand. In 1927, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Virginia statute allowing for the sterilization of people who were thought of as “unfit.” The judge wrote,

Chapter I

Congress is finally condemning a dark chapter in American history. Lawmakers introduced a historic resolution to address the forced sterilization of thousands of Native American women. This abuse happened during the 1970s. The federal government and the Indian Health Service hid this reality for decades. Survivors never stopped fighting for justice. Their voices now force a national reckoning.

The numbers reveal the true scale of the tragedy. An official investigation examined only four out of twelve Indian Health Service regions between 1973 and 1976. Doctors sterilized over three thousand four hundred Native women in just those four areas during those three years. Historians estimate that up to half of all Native women of childbearing age faced sterilization in that decade.

Women had no real choice. Doctors used deceptive tactics. They pressured women to sign forms while heavily medicated during labor or right after a surgery. Physicians lied and claimed the procedure was fully reversible. Other doctors threatened to take away welfare benefits and vital healthcare if women refused. The government even sterilized girls under the age of twenty one in direct violation of a court order.

Money and control drove the abuse. A federal law funded ninety percent of the cost. Clinics viewed the surgeries as profitable. Doctors operated with total impunity because they believed they could control who had children. This systemic abuse stripped thousands of Indigenous women of their reproductive freedom. The trauma still impacts Native communities today.

The legal system enabled these doctors. A 1927 Supreme Court case laid the dark foundation that allowed the government to target vulnerable women for most of the twentieth century.

Stay tuned for Chapter II

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To celebrate national Hispanic heritage month, let’s talk about the ancient Aymara peoples.

The waru waru system is one of the most amazing achievements of ancient Andean engineering. The Aymara peoples developed it over 2000 years ago near Lake Titicaca.

The Inca Empire knew of it but never adopted the technology. By the time the Spanish arrived, the fields were buried and nearly lost, though pilots could still see their geometric patterns from above.

Theories ranged from religious geoglyphs to astronomical markers and alien landing pads. It was not until the 1990s that researchers discovered they were a sophisticated form of climate engineering.

In Quechua and Aymara, waru waru refers to a raised agricultural bed surrounded by channels of water. The water absorbs heat by day and releases it at night, creating a microclimate that shields crops from frost.

The channels also drained excess rain and held moisture through droughts. Algae, sediment, and waste collected in them became fertilizer, and farmers grew potato, quinoa, and canihua.

These systems built the economic foundation for the Tiwanaku Empire, which flourished around 500 to 950 CE. Without them, the Tiwanaku city of up to 70,000 residents could not have been fed.

Today, the system is being revitalized. Indigenous farmers are restoring it to show that the tools to survive modern climate disruptions are sometimes already buried right under their feet.

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Europe was in the early days of the Renaissance. At the same time, empires in the Americas sustained more than 60 million people. Then Christopher Columbus arrived in 1492. Within a century, most of them were dead. The collapse of farming that followed was so great that it cooled the global climate.

First contact brought disease. Europeans carried measles, smallpox, influenza and the bubonic plague across the Atlantic. Indigenous people had never been in contact with these pathogens. Their immune systems had evolved in isolation from Eurasian and African populations for 13,000 years.

Epidemics hit in waves. People who didn’t die from smallpox died from the next wave of influenza. Those who survived that succumbed to measles. Warfare, famine and colonial atrocities did the rest. Researchers at University College London put the death toll at 56 million by 1600.

That was 90 percent of the Indigenous population and about 10 percent of everyone on Earth. A death rate of 90 percent is extraordinary. It exceeds similar epidemics, including the Black Death. That plague killed 30 percent of Europe’s population.

Researchers call this the “Great Dying.” It is the largest mortality event in proportion to the global population. In absolute terms, only World War II killed more people. That war killed 80 million, or 3 percent of the world’s population.

The tragedy left too few workers to manage the fields and forests. Vast tracts of farmland went untended. Trees and other new vegetation took over. The researchers calculated how much land Indigenous people had used and then abandoned. They found about 55 million hectares fell vacant. That is an area roughly the size of France.

The regrowth soaked up enough carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to cool the planet. The cooling then fed on itself. Colder soil released less carbon dioxide, so levels fell further.

This explains the drop in carbon dioxide around 1610 seen in Antarctic ice cores. It also solves the mystery of why the whole planet cooled briefly in the 1600s. This cold period is known as the Little Ice Age. The River Thames in London froze over regularly. Snowstorms were common in Portugal. Severe winters and cold summers disrupted farming. Famines and rebellions broke out from Europe to Japan.

I will make another video that explains how the indigenous population rebounded.

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In the late 1890s, a missionary on Haida Gwaii discovered that Haida graves had been dug open. Coffins and bones were scattered everywhere because George Dorsey, a famous curator at the Field Museum of Natural History, had sent men to rob the site. Dorsey believed that primitive cultures were vanishing and that science had a legal right to salvage their remnants.

While colonial settlers treated their own cemeteries as sacred, they viewed indigenous graves as a source of curiosity and profit. This practice was fueled by doctor Samuel Morton, who published a book in 1839 claiming white people had the largest brains and highest intelligence. To further this fake science, museums desperately needed indigenous remains. In 1868, the United States Surgeon General even ordered army doctors to collect indigenous skulls from battlefields and burial grounds.

Hundreds of thousands of indigenous people were dug up and shipped to institutions. Museums knew the immense pain they were causing. When an Inuit man died at a New York museum, anthropologists staged a fake funeral to deceive his young son, Minik, while they chopped up the body for their collection.

Destroying graves is a deliberate tool of colonization. Burial grounds tie a people to their land. When you destroy the graves, you erase the proof of ownership so history can begin with European settlement. This dehumanizing attitude continues even after death.

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