Homesteading
Blends interviews with historians, the stories told by descendents of homesteaders, and dramatic readings from pioneer diaries & letters to paint a picture of the people who struggled with daily life enduring hardships & successes they celebrated.
Production funding provided by the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund, the North Dakota Council on the Arts, the North Dakota Humanities Council, and by the members of Prairie Public
About the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund
In 2008, Minnesota voters passed a landmark piece of legislation — the Minnesota Clean Water, Land, and Legacy Amendment — which provided funding to public television stations serving audiences in Minnesota. Its mission is to help preserve and document the treasures of culture, history, and heritage that make Minnesota special, and to increase access to the natural and cultural resources we all share.
I am Norwegian and Celtic. One grandmother farmed on her own. Her husband was a sheepherder, and gone a lot. She was this generation and lived to her 90s. Another grandmother raised, alone, raised cattle and lived to her 90s.
West side of North Dakota is cattle and wheat. Not much else in farming on any large scale. ND farming was on the east side of the state.
You HAVE to deal with Winters -40°F, and colder. Animals have to eat year round. I lived in the Northwest part of the state for 7 years. I have asthma. I adjusted. Only sick twice.
The cattle breed now, mainly black angus. Unpredictable temperaments, but very cold hardy.
Mostly Lakota Sioux in this area. Very handsome people.
This is how a documentary should be done, bravo!!! Very little music and TURNED DOWN when people are talking, not like so called "history channel" (no caps) and the like.
Anyone watching this might enjoy the book ‘Land of the Burnt Thigh’ by Edith Eudora Kohl. It’s a really terrific account of this very subject, at this very time, in this very location. Very comprehensive, quite funny at times.
You claim it gave everybody the opportunity, did it include the blacks Too?
Better talk to relatives soon…..the history is dying as we watch!
All black people were banned by the United States government from obtaining this land and therefore, from future wealth.
the murder of the natives of this land made it so you can live on the stolen ground while the natives are denied their treaty rights and are still being starved out to this day. shame on us we live on the blood of children that were taken by the catholic church to their schools that murdered the children in the name of god
I’m reminded of Willa cather’s “my Antonia.”
My God if our ancestors could c us now they’d puke n cry
But what about the betrayal of the first citizens; doesn’t that bother anyone? What about the dust bowl and what caused it?
Yes, now nobody can afford a home anymore unless they inherit money. People are desperate living on streets. Wish there was still homesteading.
Sure glossed over the full extent of atrocities committed against the original inhabitants.😮
We homesteaded in Alaska before it became a state. We were covered under Lincoln’s Homestead Act. Our papers had his picture & a scroll on the top. Most people do not realize Alaska was covered under the Act up until the late 1950’s when a statehood happened. It was the " Last Frontier ". We lived similiar to the Homesteaders talked about in this video.
I was quite disgusted and offended, to see the "Marquarts" refer to Ukraine as "Russia" very ignorant and insulting. many "German Americans" who came to North Dakota often do this. One of the professors in this video appears to be a Lesbian.
I watch these videos because I want to know how USA stole our Lands and resources Violations of international laws 😅
We’re all eating Monsanto and ConAgra. Period.
I do very nice video and info thank for your effort
I watch this when I stop appreciating in how hard life was and how ignorant we are today.
This is my family History. From Russia
What the heck is wrong with you offended Americans. You stole the land. Accept the truth.
Imagine the heartache people felt loosing there so hard fought for homestead due to reason beyond there control (crop prices, banks) that we’ve done all we can do but we must leave all that we’ve known and worked and died for imagine if you can, that beaten down man finally having to say "it’s going to be okay my family we’ll find something else never loose faith in us"…….
Wonderful to be able to see and hear the struggles and understand what they these people endured
Native American people
Dr. W. Thomas White (8:01) sounds like Dr. Phil!! (No lie, close ur eyes)
Please don’t post these videos if you have a 13 year old voice!!🤬
These guys detest communism.
A whole bunch of FOREIGHN THIEVES, came here and stole heritages in the process..came and took over the farms..mechanized our farms..provided, teachings for FOREIGNORS to take the hard earned wealth from the ppl yall call BLACK today, which they are the real land owners..this is sad, if yall gonna tell the story tell it all..
It was a dream for yall..but a NIGHTMARE for them !! Was a bunch of POOR squatters..and still to this day SQUATTIN
My G-Granddad was a sod buster in North Platte, Nebraska from 1879-1900. My grandmother born 1899. In 1900 he sold out 4 farm and an ice house and moved to San Diego, California, died 1937.
Edis family
Very interesting… you would have had to of been a tough cookie to homestead in North Dakota. I grew up 5th generation on a homestead in Montana and am proud of it. Thanks for the video.
Although I do love the nostalgia of days gone by, I know that I would not have survived medically…I have overcome many illnesses throughout my life..and now at age 60, I am fighting lung cancer,….NEURO ENDO CRINE LUNG CANCER does not have a cure to this day. But with GODS help I have made it past the yrs thought to be the small amt to live with this desease…
I have a beautiful cousin but all guys wanted to do was use her n not marry. Her grandma was richest n co. They only wanted the money bu theyre a good family i think she married well i hope
That only 40% where able to make a go of it is so sad.
In Nebraska, we have a saying. "There is no such thing as a poor farmer".
What an epoch story of grit and tenacity, of our ancestors and our County. Thank you for bringing the story to us.
KARMA IS REARING IT’S HEAD FOR THE EVIL DONE TO THE INDIANS.
I too am the progeny of 1872 North Dakota German Homesteaders as well as 1889 Oklahoma Homesteaders. Wonderful stories from my Great Grandparents and their children, my Grandparents ( dob 1902, 03, 04, 05) Indians in TP’s on the 4th of July, the sound of drums and chanting deep into the night alarming the children. Native Americans coming to their doors and such. Runaway ‘teams’ of horses, plowing 640 acres by horse and plow, loading and taking to town 5 tall wagons of wheat in the morning and then in the afternoon for days upon end to silo their grain and on and on.
President Lincoln…a White Racist
At 23 minutes and 37 seconds, when she mentions how they built the house on the border of their quarter sections, I I immediately thought, " Little House on the Border".
Greetings (Kia ora) from New Zealand. What a wonderful documentary. I have been fascinated with the US homesteading act since I first read the Laura Ingalls Wilder books as a young girl (and have since re-read many times including to my children). I was interested to see that one of the homestead claims shown was actually that of Almanzo Wilder (Laura’s husband). New Zealand had the same hardy settlers, mainly British, Scots, and Irish – but also Europeans to a lesser degree, who helped to make our country and land what it is today. Thankfully though, being a more temperate climate, and no natural predators, they didn’t have quite such a hard time. I so admire those good people who worked their fingers to the bone, just to have a place to call their own on what were then, very hostile plains.
Because the Indians didn’t have a government like we do they didn’t have police and they didn’t have military, we took their land by force. Wasn’t that sweet
All of these white people are so friendly sounding unless they want to enslave you, or recently take your 55 million acres.
Omg home for me!!!! ❤️
Volume is to low 😊
Try Jami’ s way first . She is coming up to you and following so maybe lots of combing and touching would help. She’s a beautiful horse
It was not free land….it was STOLEN land!! Those poor Indians were push off their own land by greedy people who had no care for others. Such a shame.
still telling lies
Lincoln, first Pride Member President that we know of. 😅😅😅
Ppl were so resilient. Can you imagine now? Ppl would turn to the government to solve their hunger crisis and get on tik Tok and whine.
Are these the guys that stole the land from the native americans?
I’m thinking about becoming a homesteader. They were some of my heroes. Them, the ppl of the Appalachia, and southern share croppers … tough times don’t last long but tough people do.😤💯💯💯