The Mississippi – A journey through the heart of America | DW Documentary
The Mississippi – A journey through the heart of America | DW Documentary
The Mississippi stretches from the glacial lakes in northern Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico. For many Americans, the mighty, almost 4,000-kilometer-long river is closely linked to the nation’s history.
People have lived along these riverbanks for several thousand years. Today, the river unites many different cultures and is considered the…
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Thank you for making this wonderful documentary.
My best wishes to the people of the Choctaw Nation! ❤
Thanks again DW, for another great documentary! A native Californian, I am well versed in my country west of the Rocky Mountains but little about states east of there! This was a great glimpse of life along the Southern Mississippi.
The Mississippi: where Louis Armstrong found his groove and where nursing students embark on wild study abroad adventures!
The OG☻🐂boys 💌
Man, I think this was the worst DW documentary that I've come across so far. It's great that it showed some highly underrepresented cultures and I suppose you have to talk about the music scene a bit, but it's astounding how much got left out. St. Louis and the area where the Ohio and Missouri rivers meet the Mississippi don't exist and the river's the whole reason why Grant's Vicksburg campaign was so important, but they don't exist, either. There were some mentions about trade, but not about the steamships nor the Sultana disaster, which exploded near Memphis, and Mark Twain's probably the most famous author associated with the Mississippi. And finally, talking about Louisiana's erosion is definitely important, but the Mississippi also carries a ton of agricultural products downstream so uncontrolled algae growth has caused a massive dead zone in the Gulf. But hey, we got to watch a car show.
Would like to see a longer documentary about the preservation of the Great Mississippi River. 😊
❤wonderful variety of stories and people. Great to learn more about different cultures with horses, cars, ecology etc.
Sacred old river, impressive! ❤
The Mississippi has all sorts of problems currently. Having a huge impact on food distribution…
Need 4k, go 1 billions km² 300 millions km² land!
I was waiting for the casino. Not disappointed.
After many days discussion centered around the river by DW documentary.
Thank you.
Choctaw- mother mount- river- 🌎 earth…🌊🙏
Sending ❤ to Messippi people from Nagaland! I want to visit, maybe if God grant me in the future. 😊
Weh – Yah – Weh – Yah -Weh – Yah…
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0:58: ⛰️ Sacred Chocktaw ritual at ancient earthwork Mound along Mississippi River.
7:02: 🎵 Aspiring musician Naomi Taylor explores Memphis' music scene, carrying on her grandfather's legacy with dreams of a successful career.
12:50: 🚗 Exploring American Indian Day, Mississippi traditions, and classic cars in the heart of America.
18:44: 🚗 Exploring the cultural significance of the Mississippi River, showcasing a female car enthusiast, and highlighting the challenges of Inland navigation.
24:47: 🌅 Exploring the Mississippi River delta Basin on a powered paraglider and spending the night on a remote island.
31:00: 🌊 Exploring the impact of natural disasters on the Mississippi Delta and the loss of land in New Orleans.
37:30: 🌳 Preservation efforts in a Louisiana community combat land loss by planting cypress trees.
Timestamps by Tammy AI
𓆩✞𓆪❤🔥My friends, I want you to remember the message I preached and that you believed and trusted. YOU WILL BE SAVED BY THIS MESSAGE if you hold firmly to it. But if you don't, your faith was all for nothing. I told you the most important part of the message exactly as it was told to me. This part is: -` ⏰🚨✈´- CHRIST DIED FOR OUR SINS, 🩸 AS THE SCRIPTURES SAY. HE WAS BURIED, AND THREE DAYS LATER HE WAS RAISED TO LIFE, AS THE SCRIPTURES SAY. ~~1 CO 15:1-4 CEV
Here's some Choctaw archeology from Google Scholar. OPEN ACCESS
Archeology in the Southern States, Henry B. Collins. The article describes how your ancestors were very religious, hard working, farmers and prosperous. But, it'd be interesting to know the sustainable technology and sustainable economic system. Archeology showed Great Lakes economy traded thousands of kilometers, thousands of years before the WASP invasion or settling. But what's even more pertinent is your ancestors back 10,000, 20,000 or 30,000 years and how they survived the Ice Age, near extinction events, climate change etc. And maybe check out Rome's port, 200 A.D. because it's 4+ metres above current sea levels. If not silted over, that's a high water mark we're returning to. So if sea levels rise 4+ metres, the Mississippi will be bigger. Much bigger. Cities could become dive sites. Maybe ask an AI Climate Change Foundation Model: When will these things be? and when does our Lord return? but remember, Foundation Models, are probabilistic. They're about being prepared. Besides watching your every move.
This is amazing
Nanih Waiya
The legendary Choctaw Nation!!! Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians
When she started singing Dumped
Awesome!! 👍😎🇨🇦
While I greatly appreciate many of DW's documentaries I must bring up a point of terminology that can be viewed as problematic at best that of "settlement" by Europeans in the Americas. All of these lands were settled long before Europeans even knew they were here. To claim otherwise is pejorative at best. I am sure this was not the intent and editing will occur in future work.
Louis Armstrong was discovered by New Orleans riverboat Captain Verne Streckfus, who brought Armstrong out from a French Quarter bar to play on the boat.
Good ol' bland American conservatism along a troubled waterway. Coke , burgers, Mustang's, cowboys etc. America is on the rise again. Didn't manage to watch this pulp to the end.
We also have mississipi river in Meru,Kenya .
Boring.
The Mississippi Basin would have interested me.
Great doc thank you. Extra credit for using some of the soundtrack from thelma & louise
Most remarkable country to ever exist 🇺🇸 🦅
It was a wonderful documentary shared by an excellent ( DW) .video about a certain Indian tribe's native red Indian cultures. Documentary focused on Chikto tribe culture on Mississippi River … thanks for sharing
Seen a mound like that in Britain, apparently druids built it over centuries of praying to a local god and offerring small amounts of soil.
This Is so True, Such a great doc. about America !
Just realised that Mississippi river isn't the longest river in U.S.Its Missouri River!! 😮
Who is Hollywood? It is a better question.
LOve you all.. from Newfoundland
I like how the first place they go is over 100 miles from the Mississippi River
M I double S I double S I double P I! 😂
lowering standards DW.
Disappointing. I live in Southern Arizona in the shadow of the Colorado River. I'd have hoped you would have discussed the headwaters of the Mississippi, it's importance to commerce and trade, recreational uses, it's impact on farming, water rights, etc.
Instead they concentrated on vignettes that, for the most part, had little to do with the river.
now they call them illegal emigrants and white people legal emigrants, super hypocrisy, a joke
One Mississippi two Mississippi three Mississippi
nice work dw
Typical American why does everything have to be massive from steaks to rivers everything is massive,,😂
Amazing!
I want to do a journey from Leadville to little rock then the gulf, any way you would like to be apart?
Mississippi River is HUGE very underrated
God Did Not Plan for His children to be shoved aside by another man with a different history! ❤
When I was in nursing school I asked if they had any “study abroad” programs. They told me that they used to do Haiti but stopped because apparently someone got murdered there, but they had Mississippi lol. Their was visible disappointment on my advisors face when I wasn’t interested