"Long Ago in Montana, Chapter 4: Staying Warm" (2009)

Directed by Dr. Sally Thompson. Ph.D.
A western Native American perspective on what shelter and lodging means. LONG TIME AGO IN MONTANA is a 7-part series that focuses on 15 tribal educators and elders from nine different Native Tribes in Montana and Idaho. They share their perspectives on what it was like to live before modern conveniences, and how the traditions of long ago continue into modern times.
ABOUT THE FILMMAKER
Dr. Thompson has spent over thirty years working with native tribes of the West. She has worked as an archaeologist, ethnographer, and ethnohistorian. As founder of the Regional Learning Project, she oversaw a team of specialists with a focus on regional history, geography and culture, interviewing over 200 elders of 37 tribes and used the results to produce several documentaries and three websites. More recently, she worked with traditionalists from the Kootenai and Blackfeet tribes on a book about their traditional seasonal grounds through the Crown of the Continent, with a focus on Glacier National Park. PEOPLE BEFORE THE PARK is due out in 2014.
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[@thickbrianq]

I was taught that if we listen Nature will talk to us.

[@JimBairdAdventurer]

I agree

[@LK-fz7vr]

That is a deep truth you'll get from anyone who truly lived in nature.

[@douglasmckee9574]

Absolutely.
Grandfather Taught us

[@sheliarossell3162]

Yes

[@billmafturack8189]

These were things I learned instinctively as a kid and into my teens in the seventies, I was most at peace when I was out in the northern Ontario woods . Snowshoeing and winter camping you observed the world around you , like wind direction and changes in temps, and things you felt more than saw , when it was going to storm or simply get very cold you could see and feel the changes long before they came ..

[@loulou3816]

Awww I remember the elders telling us about the ring around the moon that its gonna be cold. Their so wise n smart I miss my elders who taught me our ways n how to be prepared...

[@samiuelafifita826]

This is beautiful mini documentaries. More please

[@neilyakuza6595]

It is sad that this type of knowledge is being lost.

[@LK-fz7vr]

Yeah when that guy said they had special ppl who knew the weather.. I def believe that.

[@fjb4932]

"When a person dies, a library burns ..."

[@LK-fz7vr]

@@fjb4932 good quote 👍

[@microfarmers]

Awesome video thanks! I'm an old soul, and I was just curious.

[@jurgbangerter1023]

Before a storm deer come out during the day to feed and pine tree branches lower themselves a few inches, you can also smell the coming snow and watching insects you know how the winter will be ts not only American Natives which could pre.say weather, in the Alps the people knew exactly how the winter would be and certain things you could only do during the winter such as bringing in hay from the high prairies to feed cattle using sleds.

[@styphlynne8253]

Amazing! Thanks for sharing

[@mattiasandersson2315]

So pretty!

[@fatherbewithme]

Nature does talk

[@timothyo1869]

She's wide open if you ever can learn to respect those who came before and the land and all its creatures

[@geraldblair3094]

I love Montana

[@mariekatherine5238]

As a non-native, when I regard a Buffalo, I think of strength under restraint, outer and inner strength. Its eyes belay a deep pool of spirit forever beyond that of human comprehension.

[@styphlynne8253]

So many things now beyond humanoids mindless acts. Time to bring it back

[@deitrestolbert4951]

Smelling the rain in the atmosphere before it actually rain....I miss that smell

[@jamesalanstephensmith7930]

Interesting!

[@elizabethannegrey6285]

Fascinating. Wisdom and insight lost with the advance of “civilisation”.

[@timothyo1869]

The word Montana pineapples experience🍎

[@fredziffle5219]

I grew up out on the frozen tundra of the plains states, we were often cold cause its a truly cold @$$ place. Even the buffalo headed for the hot springs & stayed in spite of the poison gasses, they died.

[@Templar777_K9]

I would like to live there, one day...and then move along to another territory.

[@googleevil9553]

So glad the outside world is a thing of the past. 😊

[@jacquesgirouard2733]

nice try satan.....lol

[@Happy_HIbiscus]

😊😊😊😊

[@timothyo1869]

A real place t

[@dbrown9495]

Burning Those Brigettes is free fuel and they burn better or good as coal!! Ingenious! Also cow dung Bridgette's are very useful too

[@timothyo1869]

I hope the conquest stretch doesn't sway you

[@billmartre6823]

J'ai thé same

[@timothyo1869]

Who is this stud studi🍎

[@jefar53]

Where’s Elizabeth warrens testimony ? 😜

[@BluntlyBlondie]

jefar amoose 😂😂😂😂

[@harveypost7799]

Pies y plains so fertile.was 60 ft deep not about 6 ft...farming.

[@Elaine38003]

I'm not Native American we used to call them Cow Patties