Backbone of the World the Blackfeet

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  • čas přidán 13. 10. 2015

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  • @1happyguy823
    @1happyguy823 Před 4 lety +41

    I am black foot indian.i really feel the connection when I am out in nature. I love all my Blackfoot brothers and sisters. Blessings to all of you!!

    • @heathert5455
      @heathert5455 Před 4 lety +2

      You have happy holidays and a good new year.

    • @davidortega357
      @davidortega357 Před 3 lety +2

      Im from California everywhere i go.i bump into native people they give me the hisign we natives reconzide each other we always get respect from locals in turlock we used to have Powwows many. Area natives showed up.like pomo., miwok, yokuts, sioux, yaqui, nahuas im half nahua myself i pass for native

    • @davidortega357
      @davidortega357 Před 3 lety +1

      Im from California everywhere i go.i bump into native people they give me the hisign we natives reconzide each other we always get respect from locals in turlock we used to have Powwows many. Area natives showed up.like pomo., miwok, yokuts, sioux, yaqui, nahuas im half nahua myself i pass for native

    • @sefo-ck6jf
      @sefo-ck6jf Před 2 lety

      Those who do not know history cannot build their future. Never forget this.
      Take the Turks as an example.

    • @fieldagentryan
      @fieldagentryan Před rokem +1

      greeting from ireland or eire as is more correct . We hear you played a game similar to our own called iomanaiochta ...... a precursor to ice hockey played by your own tribe i am lead to believe !

  • @Dawnnsculturalvibe
    @Dawnnsculturalvibe Před 3 lety +16

    Amskapi Pikuni, Heart Butte. So beautifully done. So nice to see our elders speak who are no longer with us. I appreciate that. Nomotahsitaki

  • @starsister4420
    @starsister4420 Před 5 lety +30

    Great grand father was Blackfoot tribe. My great grandmother was Sioux tribe. Iam the 3rd generation from them, and have Always heard their spirits talking to me. I have come to love the native spirituality.

  • @erickahn9417
    @erickahn9417 Před 2 měsíci +1

    I'm part blackfoot, and when I'm out in my ten acres of thick northern Michigan woodland. I feel completely restored, and the whispers of our ancestors on the light breeze... always reminds me of who I am! Whenever I feel anything besides light and love, I go for a walk. Best cure ever!!

    • @AZtea4UnME
      @AZtea4UnME Před 2 měsíci

      Thought I was walking among ghosts e.g. post/comments 2-8 yrs ago. Nice to meet you

  • @wchiwinky
    @wchiwinky Před 6 lety +62

    Long Live Blackfoot/Blackfeet Nations , and the language...it's ALL Indian Land!
    Thank you

    • @christined3953
      @christined3953 Před 4 lety +1

      since the beginning of time the land is those that have the power , race does not matter or ideology

    • @N8iVEaf
      @N8iVEaf Před 4 lety +5

      it is all indian land
      they walk on stolen land
      n8ive pride ✊🏾

    • @Sage62919
      @Sage62919 Před 4 lety

      Skoden Fineden exactly

    • @christined3953
      @christined3953 Před 4 lety

      philippines@@N8iVEaf Spain , Portugal, cortez . brought slaves & enslaved the people of south & central America, philippines. slavery & conquering land has been around since the beginning of time all over this planet.Blackfoot are not better than anyone else. . Get over it dummy. Quit blaming every one for the past . jack wagon dummy .

  • @account-gp4sn
    @account-gp4sn Před 6 lety +45

    My mom is a citizen of the Blackfeet Piegan tribe (Fast Buffalo Horse band). I don't consider myself Blackfeet because 1) I don't speak their language, 2) I don't live on their sacred land, 3) I don't have enough "blood" (as in their abstract blood quantum laws) to become a member, but I am always proud that my ancestors were/are Blackfeet! Thanks for standing up for them and sharing this doc!

    • @bobbypickle67
      @bobbypickle67 Před 5 lety +5

      Everybody should be proud of their heritage and ancestors, every culture and every race has a history on how their ancestors had to fight to protect their countrymen and their cultre or fight to keep it.
      And all of which had had to endure hardship and sorrow and to make it better for the next generation. Every race and every culture has had to endure a lot more than we could ever really know.
      Everybody should be proud of your heritage, just accept that other cultures from other ancestors that suffered the way theirs did and deserve the same courtesy for their heritage as much as any others

    • @andrewkirkland822
      @andrewkirkland822 Před 4 lety

      bobbypickle67 zz

    • @halanihicks3513
      @halanihicks3513 Před 3 lety

      Same here I have a ancestor that is black foot

    • @janaprocella8268
      @janaprocella8268 Před 3 lety +8

      DNA makes you Blackfoot ...
      Has nothing really to do with knowing their language.. etc.
      YOU ARE

    • @ronnietodd4990
      @ronnietodd4990 Před 3 lety +2

      I know plenty of Lakota and Crow braves that would gladly TAKE YOUR SCALP!!!

  • @chm825
    @chm825 Před 5 lety +16

    I grew up in Germany. As young girl, I always read Indian stories by Karl May and became so infatuated with it that I used to dress up as an Indian during the month long carneval in February. My mom sewed me the most beautiful outfit and painted the pants with a zigzag white. She colored my face brownish and even applied war paint with red and white paint. My dad made me a feather headdress with feathers stapled to a band I wore over my head. I had a tomaha fastened to a belt wrapped around my waist. I was the most beautiful little Indian,
    told everyone that I would marry an Indian chief some day.
    Now, I am 75 and I live in Tucson. I do see old Indian men and always remember my childhood dreams and I am smiling at them.

    • @manuelarodriguez5706
      @manuelarodriguez5706 Před 4 lety +1

      I always admired the native people I grew up with Karl may

    • @janaprocella8268
      @janaprocella8268 Před 3 lety +1

      God bless you all for your beautiful loving dreams and spirit of Mother Earth and all of her inhabitants...
      Yes all these things were purely alive truly and purely alive nothing ever really dies,
      It just changes forms.

  • @chiandtshirts7441
    @chiandtshirts7441 Před 5 lety +6

    I too am descendant of Blackfeet Nation. Great grandfather. Colorado. Happy to know that my love of outdoors and connected spirituality are a new part of my heritage. Going to research more. Hope to visit any land my forebears walked and loved.

    • @dn2ze
      @dn2ze Před 5 lety +3

      Travys Carlysle something you never hear any Wannabes in America never says like we do in Canada...”both of our parents are Native” maybe because we have mixed Natives who happen to have a culture and language of their own by mixing their Native and European heritage together and actually developed a culture and language something lots of wannabes and culture vultures in America can’t even do...plus Canada actually kept the same Treaties sign in 1771 that still stands today. Plus these laws and rights makes it hard for wannabes and cultures vultures claiming to be Native let alone part Native...BTW Métis means “half”

    • @jeremyarroyo360
      @jeremyarroyo360 Před 5 lety +2

      @@dn2ze african americans are famous for this shit 😂 are you of this nation?

    • @mountainchief2163
      @mountainchief2163 Před 5 lety +1

      @@dn2ze .. You do not know the difference between your ass and a hole in the ground

  • @cynthia197513
    @cynthia197513 Před 6 lety +52

    I'm part Blackfoot and proud. I was able to see my great grandmother until the age of 7, I remember her as being an amazing woman.

    • @markswope7271
      @markswope7271 Před 6 lety

      Cynthia D cool

    • @baegoals8112
      @baegoals8112 Před 6 lety +2

      $5 Blackfoot

    • @alwaysstudying5309
      @alwaysstudying5309 Před 4 lety

      @@baegoals8112 facts

    • @salvadoravila8688
      @salvadoravila8688 Před 3 lety +2

      Longleaf native nation's yeah baby

    • @Scrat335
      @Scrat335 Před 3 lety

      I had a friend as a kid whos mom was Blackfoot and father a Scotsman. Her name was Nancy. She was a huge hearted woman. I have great memories of her, very loving to all of us kids. My friend, her son, died in an auto accident. I was so angry that something like that happened to her and Joe. I was mad at the universe.

  • @whiskeygap
    @whiskeygap Před 7 lety +16

    Great lesson in history. Sadly a lot of the elders in this documentary have passed.

    • @bethbartlett5692
      @bethbartlett5692 Před 4 lety +4

      Only their physical - their energy and your is eternal, they are there - ask them to come in and be with you.
      See them where they loved to be, doing what their passion "is" -
      Oh they are around those whom they loved/love and know each time you place thoughts on them - we are eternal energy soul beings having a human journey experience, we tilt when we go too human mind - have harmony when we merge the 2 physical with non physical...
      Thoughts of "positive abundance" be yours ...

  • @joel4535
    @joel4535 Před 8 dny

    I have learned a great deal from Natives. The importance of tradition and genealogy & the ability to be.
    Thank you for the church building not made with hands.

  • @Brenda0312F
    @Brenda0312F Před 4 lety +13

    I was told as a child that I have Blackfeet blood in my family. So I am here to learn about my history. ♥️

    • @sefo-ck6jf
      @sefo-ck6jf Před 2 lety

      You better do because Those who do not know history cannot build their future. Never forget this.
      Take the Turks as an example.

  • @gmelo8218
    @gmelo8218 Před 5 lety +16

    The Great Spirit be with you.

  • @nancybaldwin1811
    @nancybaldwin1811 Před 6 lety +51

    I agree with the native peoples. We need to change our ways. Build closer together, so we can help one another. Use sustainable materials. Make only what is needed. Less government and get rid of money. When you work for money, you can't work to help each other or the land. Get rid of fashion. Make clothes that are sustainable.

    • @dn2ze
      @dn2ze Před 5 lety +2

      Nancy Baldwin learn from Canada, from the looks of things American Founding fathers should of stayed with the Crown instead of breaking away from it. Canada still upholds the first treaties that were sign in 1771 with indigenous people. Canada even has laws and Treaty Rights protecting and preserve the cultures and languages it even protects it from wannabes and culture vultures.

    • @dn2ze
      @dn2ze Před 5 lety +6

      Lee Francis how? Explain? Remember your insulting the very people who saved and taught your white ancestors how to survive these lands and yet the very same people still have their cultures...sometimes I’m amazed by the stupidity of people like you... hahahahaha

    • @dn2ze
      @dn2ze Před 5 lety +4

      Lee Francis your just a troll, hahahahaha seriously get a life, your comment alone show how little you know about Natives since you can’t tell the difference between natives of North America and Indians from India... hahahahaha

    • @dn2ze
      @dn2ze Před 5 lety +4

      Lee Francis read and learn about North America Fur Trade the very economy that give birth to America. And natives and Inuits were the one doing the trapping. Now tell me if that happened you wouldn’t be here thinking highly of yourself. Hahahahaha fucking dumb ass lol

    • @dn2ze
      @dn2ze Před 5 lety +2

      Lee Francis here this is why, immigrants are allowed to live in North America to begin with czcams.com/video/X0sScDTgyGU/video.html

  • @countryboylife5darlowe391
    @countryboylife5darlowe391 Před 7 lety +24

    Im part Blackfoot of Montana. I always wondered why I was a natural dealing with horses and other animals. I'm very intact with the out doors now I see why..

    • @sunnzo2467
      @sunnzo2467 Před 5 lety +2

      Your blood does not dictate your hobbies. It does however dictate addiction rate and diseases, and some physical genetics. You look quite heavily African to me.

    • @dn2ze
      @dn2ze Před 5 lety +1

      Sunnzo it seems like blacks in America always trying to twist Native history or claiming to be part Native. I am full blooded and blacks look nothing like us. They are darker then us. Plus they should learn a thing or two from Métis people of Canada. Métis people are mixed Natives who developed a culture and language of their own by mixing their Native and European heritage together. Now they are their own people along side Inuits and Natives of Canada. Plus most Métis look white too but we call tell a Mixed Native among First Nation anyways. The ones who look Native usually have curly or wavy hair or some go bald. Because of their European blood in them...

    • @jimiwhat79
      @jimiwhat79 Před 4 lety +1

      Oh well Native American tribes have always mixed with others, so a person that looks African or European... still might have a distant ancestor that was native.. does that make them native I don’t think so. They are probably more African or European and 0.000.0001 % native problem is they don’t know their roots in Africa or Europe so they claim something which they have stories about in the family..

    • @mil-simfsb4429
      @mil-simfsb4429 Před 3 lety

      Its feet not foot

    • @rahra2483
      @rahra2483 Před 3 lety +1

      @@dn2ze oh hush!!!

  • @paulenehicks8972
    @paulenehicks8972 Před 7 lety +11

    THANK YOU. MY GRATE GRANDMOTHER IS BLACKFEET. I NEVER HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO MEET GRATE GRANDMOTHER; YET I FEEL HER AND LOVE HER. I AM BLACK NON IMMIGRANT / BLACKFEET AND IRISH. I PRAY FOR US ALL. BLESS YOU OUR FAMILY NEAR AND FAR. PEACE PAULENE HICKS.

    • @michaellee1905
      @michaellee1905 Před 4 lety +1

      paulene hicks
      I am approximately 25% Blackfoot and enjoyed this film. I have had an awakening in my soul which urges me to return to the ancestral knowledge and this film has brought some comfort and understanding.
      It’s sad that for industry to thrive this had to happen. If any minority group or peoples have been done wrong it’s the American Indian. I have a lot of respect and love for my ancestors and all Indians. It’s a connection that I have always felt.

    • @ichabodacrane4331
      @ichabodacrane4331 Před 4 lety

      Lies

  • @jerryblizzard9363
    @jerryblizzard9363 Před 5 lety +31

    This is a very informative film. We are one people and serve our Country with honor. Why do others not respect and honor The American Indian?

    • @lbarnhill5493
      @lbarnhill5493 Před 5 lety +4

      Acknowledging the ones that do, lessens the disappointment.

    • @subliminal2244
      @subliminal2244 Před 4 lety +1

      These people w no respect for Indigenous people's are greedy and do not respect life land it is as it is they are in the WH and I fear it is not better but there must always be hope
      It should always be We not I

    • @111seed2
      @111seed2 Před 3 lety +1

      This is changing my friend.

    • @profitmakr5114
      @profitmakr5114 Před 2 lety

      @@subliminal2244 Unfortunately, blacks are being taught that They are the 'real' Indigenous people, and that we Native Americans stole the land from them, and they want it back! After everything we have been through, now we have to deal with the greed an the fantasies of black people too! This is not all black people of course, but one of their teachers, Dane Calloway has over 35,000,000 viewers. It is spreading like Wildfire because of Dane Calloway and others like him.
      I report him as misinformation or fraud as he is getting rich off of his millions and millions of followers. CZcams refuses to do anything about it even though they are now expressing death threats against Native Americans on social media. They actually believe we are white and Asian mix so they feel entitled to threaten us and express the rudest, crudest racial rants about us. A friend of mine left tik tok and CZcams because of these threats. She was afraid for her children, so her voice is ended and she can no longer contribute online. She called the police, of course.

  • @margaritagonzalez9740
    @margaritagonzalez9740 Před 6 lety +7

    Relaxing 😌 music and amazing 😉 to learn history Great 👍 Honor and Respect ✊

  • @MarkHardKnox
    @MarkHardKnox Před 5 lety +11

    22:40 He started naming my whole family. The 1st KEMPS. I am speechless.

  • @arbyecollier4062
    @arbyecollier4062 Před 3 lety +2

    Enough is enough!!!! Give my brothers and sisters there land back!!!!!

  • @margrietbrandsma000
    @margrietbrandsma000 Před 5 lety +2

    Thank you for sharing your stories. This is the story of (almost) all people. I am white, from Europe. All of us have been taken away our freedom. And the core of that freedom is our connection with Spirit. Spirit which we do not feel, see, experience anymore. That disturbed connection has always been the goal of the force that took over. The people of all tribes are reconnecting now. Even the ones who do not know who their tribe ever was, they are uniting now in search of new connection with Spirit, with Earth. We all have to start a new Earth. Time to forgive all and ourselves. Never to forget but for the sake of starting new life. Love.

  • @Papaseer
    @Papaseer Před rokem +2

    I am a proud African-American of mixed blood heritage, my grandmother was a %100 First Nation Blackfoot woman , I did not grow up in the culture so to have these videos and stories mean so much thank you

    • @notes2you
      @notes2you Před 7 měsíci

      I am also, historically, of American Indian/Blackfeet of West Virginia. Also, "told I am" of African descent. I am courious as to how tribe now speaks mostly of Blackfeet located in upper northeastern part of US.
      They originally lived in WV. But, moved to AL when things got very bad there for Indians. Anyone have knowledge or history how we got to west Coast?

    • @Whats.thissa
      @Whats.thissa Před měsícem

      The Iroquois and Susqhannock and white man could have chased them off or The Generokees?

  • @lenasayers7086
    @lenasayers7086 Před 4 lety +2

    we are of this earth... you can remove the people from the land, but you cannot remove the land from the people. this is our home! we cared for our home/land and lived here for generations

  • @subliminal2244
    @subliminal2244 Před 4 lety +5

    As Russell Means once said We are all on a Reservation we just dont know it.
    The Blackfeet have beautiful land it's a look into what life could be having less material things is a blessing one can take the time to appreciate thank you all for insight s moment in time bless you all.

  • @jerryblizzard9363
    @jerryblizzard9363 Před 6 lety +3

    I am blood brother to Leon Rattler and have met "Old Man" the Blackfeet Chief. These are very spiritual people & I love their beliefs. I myself am mixed blood of several Tribes.
    I am brother of John Apache Smith. I have never been home to New Mexico as I was adopted by whites. John tells me that He has registered me with B.I.A. We were each Jicarilla/ Mescalero Apache.

  • @brookelederer8380
    @brookelederer8380 Před 6 lety +60

    I’m 100% Native American and my tribe is Blackfoot

    • @stephengent9974
      @stephengent9974 Před 5 lety +9

      Amskapi Pikani actually. Blackfeet is the name given by Europeans. As a European myself I would rather native people use their own names for themselves. I have heard that pretty much all the native people names mean "the people"

    • @lbarnhill5493
      @lbarnhill5493 Před 5 lety +5

      I think all first nation people should get back in touch with their ancestors. The following is from a white man who lived among the indians.
      The main trouble was that he wore an immense moustache and chin whiskers. The Blackfeet abhorred hair, except that of the head. An old acquaintance never buttoned his shirt winter nor summer; his breast was as hairy as a dog’s back. I have seen the Blackfeet actually shudder when they looked at it.

    • @eskigunler62
      @eskigunler62 Před 5 lety

      good for you

    • @damionallen7875
      @damionallen7875 Před 5 lety +2

      My mom's mom was Mother Bud, we kids stayed with her, as mom & dad worked. She was VERY VERY QUIET SPIRITUAL & COOKING; TAN LADY.

    • @damionallen7875
      @damionallen7875 Před 5 lety

      Dad was mixed Delaware, Blackfoot & Chitaqwa/Chocktaw Nation. His sis did RESEARCH TRIP ON TRIBE ALL THE WAY UP TO CANADA (in "59) & brought LOADS BACK; BOWS & SUCH for us boys; Cloth/clothes, pix, utensils, baskets, jewelry, etc.! @ 15 Pro Fishing & on Ocean too! @ College- I was Archer/Hunter & Got Martial Arts. Started such at COMMUNITY SCH. SYS. Spread cross USA. Reviving ORIG. NATIVE CULTURE & ISLAAM. VETRAN also. Got 11+ kids grown well as Pros.

  • @harmonyBalance
    @harmonyBalance Před 4 lety +2

    Thank you for this documentary.

  • @miasteyn3287
    @miasteyn3287 Před 2 lety +2

    Thank you for the beautiful example you are in the calm, peaceful way you deal with your past and restore your rights without hatred and violence. I dearly love and respect your nation for your precious understanding of our earth mother and sky father connection. I enjoyed this video.

  • @williameasterling9666
    @williameasterling9666 Před 4 lety +2

    Black feet 2020 still here we will survive

  • @gustavosmoiras1750
    @gustavosmoiras1750 Před 2 lety

    What a blessing thank you. Your nation had injustices that need to be shared. LA Tonka will run again

  • @Improveng1
    @Improveng1 Před 4 lety

    Brilliant documentary, I wish you people well in your quest. Love and respect from the UK.

  • @michelle81477
    @michelle81477 Před 5 lety +3

    This film was beautifully done! 💕 Namaste

  • @kipperlane8959
    @kipperlane8959 Před 4 lety +1

    I so appreciate this documentary. My great grandfather was a Blackfeet Indian my great grandmother was part Irish. He passed away before I was born. My grandmother said they called him Poppa.

  • @gamingsquadmemes2314
    @gamingsquadmemes2314 Před 6 lety +8

    I need to learn blackfeet language from my grandma i need to know soon seem the elders always now proud to part of the full blooded and pikuni ✊✊👣

  • @dmvsav
    @dmvsav Před 5 lety +2

    As a little boy, my Dad told us that we were descendants of the Native American tribe, BlackFoot. Since then, I've been PROUD to say I'm a descendant of the Native American society.

    • @johncox1103
      @johncox1103 Před 5 lety

      My mother was full blooded blackfoot,, I'm proud of all my brothers and sisters, that are true Indians, white man speak with fork tongue

    • @irisreevis530
      @irisreevis530 Před 4 lety

      Derek Vickers who are your people

  • @klu222
    @klu222 Před 5 lety +9

    I am a desecendant of chief Heavy Runner and am proud we live on.

    • @jeremyarroyo360
      @jeremyarroyo360 Před 5 lety

      Your very prettry i am from the taiño tribe of quba y borikien. Much love respects

  • @MarkHardKnox
    @MarkHardKnox Před 5 lety +4

    It's good to see my families roots.

  • @diannaskare7829
    @diannaskare7829 Před 5 lety +1

    Thank you! Awesome video and very informative!

  • @runingblackbear
    @runingblackbear Před 8 lety +17

    you should know the land like the back of your hand it is aways there to help you with things in life mother always take care of you be strong and love everything as family

  • @TM-ry6hc
    @TM-ry6hc Před 6 lety +17

    Just found out I am a descendant of the Blackfeet Indian. LOVE!

  • @ramsfire
    @ramsfire Před 6 měsíci

    Wow...this was a Captivating Segment that I will Always Remember. Power To Tradition.
    I especially felt a Calm Grounded Intensity and Depth, in The Eyes of The Elders and Ancestors in those Photographs.. Power Personified.
    🦬🦬🦬🦬🦬🦬🦬🦬🦬🦬🦬🦬🦬

  • @marcshaw7876
    @marcshaw7876 Před 6 lety +27

    My great grandfather was blackfeet married my great grand mother in Boga Chitta MS and its funny because as a kid i used to stare into my eyes in a mirror ( supposedly allows one to see future) and see a old native american man staring back an i never could figure out why or how could i grow from a black kid into an old native american. It makes sense now thanks for the vid

    • @meganlewis479
      @meganlewis479 Před 6 lety +1

      Marc Shaw my ex grew up there in ms. I hope to take my daughter one day to the Choctaw fair one year to help her learn more about who she is.

    • @TM-ry6hc
      @TM-ry6hc Před 6 lety +2

      Mirrors are portals, you may have seen yourself in a past life, or the man you saw could have been your spirit guide. Best wishes in finding out more

    • @sandragraziani6312
      @sandragraziani6312 Před 5 lety

      Maybe so

  • @gabriellekelly3462
    @gabriellekelly3462 Před 5 lety +15

    I was told as a child my biological father was born on an Indian reservation and he was then adopted. I was then also adopted. I didn't know if it was true or his birth name or even which tribe. A few years ago through ancestry DNA, I was matched with his sisters. The DNA test said I was 12% native American. They are much more than I, 23% & 24% (I don't why the different percentages?) Through their few names listed on their family trees, I found their birth last name was Pepion. I traced it back several generations and found that it was blackfeet. I've tried learning as much as I can. A far off cousin even contacted me and told me things about my great grandmother. Weird thing is, I always had this super weird affinity for Montana, not even knowing why. I was raised in Kansas, far from the mountains. My favorite movies were River runs through it, as a child and Legends of the Fall as an adult. Both set in Montana. When I found out about the blackfeet I kinda wondered if that was why lol. My roots calling to me.

    • @repairdepartment5918
      @repairdepartment5918 Před 3 lety +2

      I'm related to Blackfeet too, but I'm from east coast. I went to South Dakota and got a similar feeling. I was alone fishing in a small river running through some gorgeous prairie with amazing colored sandstone and rock banks. Reds browns purples....anyway, I was alone, and lazily fishing in heaven! Across the tiny rocky river I saw a large dark shape that I thought was a large boulder, it was under the shade of some small trees. Then I saw it move slightly from the corner of my eye. I thought it must have been the light or shadow at first. Until, it started getting bigger and bigger, and making weird snortling sounds. When the boulder finally stood up and started crossing the river towards me, I suddenly realized it was a very large bison. I was frozen with the line still in the water. Then it sped up it's gate, faster and faster until it dawned on me, Hey this thing is charging me. I was on it's turf and it was letting me know. I just turned and ran, full speed with fishing line dragging behind me. It chased me for about 100 yards, and was right at my heels for the last 5 or 10 seconds before it stopped and turned around. It probably could have easily trampled me. As I was running I noticed in the tall open grass a bleached white old bison skull, and some bones and thought, Oh man, I really encroached on a sacred spot. I felt guilty. But I also felt like I was home in that element or area. My heart never felt so connected to a place. Even when running for my life. I feel blessed to have had that experience.

  • @zojourneyhenrycbrcbf9366
    @zojourneyhenrycbrcbf9366 Před 5 lety +2

    I'm from Oklahoma & the Chickasaw are the Blackfoot my ancestors & I are from the grandfather tribe Delaware lenuapi who where adopted by the Cherokee's!!!

  • @heathert5455
    @heathert5455 Před 4 lety +1

    I am mixed European, Ojibway, and Blackfoot. My paternal grandfather was Ojibway from the Swan Creek Black River tribe. Grandpa was a survivor of the boarding school and he passed away in 1981. My maternal grandmother was Blackfoot; however, she died an old woman in the 1940s. I do not know her tribe...sadly.

  • @gypsymaum6859
    @gypsymaum6859 Před 4 lety +1

    25 percent native . I hear my ancestors and sometimes I see them in the dreams they give me. The Cheerokee . The Land is still sacred , treat it holy I hear them say.

  • @jeffreyraia5804
    @jeffreyraia5804 Před rokem

    So happy to see that this video was made. You don't hear much about the Blackfoot tribe. My Grandmother was Blackfoot which makes me part Blackfoot. I don't look it much as I'm bald, but my sister looks 100% native American and often gets recognized for it by other Native Americans. My family never talked about our Blackfoot side of the family but all my life I felt a strong connection to Native American culture. Growing up I learned to play the wood flute and befriended many members of the local tribes in southern Louisiana. Coincidently I happened to even get a job at a Choctaw casino here. I was told that, even though I'm only part American Indian, that I can have my ethnicity legally changed to it. If I did, I wouldn't be doing so for any type of financial dispensation or anything. It would be solely out of ethnic pride.

  • @jackiemanyhides3399
    @jackiemanyhides3399 Před 7 lety +6

    Thank you for sharing Excellent

  • @flatplaneoregon4605
    @flatplaneoregon4605 Před rokem

    My great grandmother was Blackfeet.
    I do not know her name.
    She Married (willingly idk) an englisher with the last name Hall.
    My grandfather Robert Hall was born in Baker Montana.
    I heard his brother Rushmore Hall is still alive in Montana.
    I have been lost all my life.
    I am 50 now with health issues, but I must go there before I leave this place...
    I need to be near my people.

  • @justme-cr3xe
    @justme-cr3xe Před 4 lety +1

    "It is a human issue." Well said Young Man.

  • @brittanypanisiak6677
    @brittanypanisiak6677 Před 6 lety +34

    Black foot proud ❤ my dads full blackfoot

    • @johna3153
      @johna3153 Před 6 lety

      🤣 really!!! Wow😂

    • @baegoals8112
      @baegoals8112 Před 6 lety +1

      $5 Blackfoot

    • @sunnzo2467
      @sunnzo2467 Před 5 lety +3

      Anyone who says theyre full Native at this point are likely lying/most likely unaware. It would take some extreme picking in who you have a child with to keep a pure native line going after all of these centuries.

    • @martialharpistmatthew1837
      @martialharpistmatthew1837 Před 4 lety

      We can make a half baby if you want x

    • @orangie9
      @orangie9 Před 4 lety +2

      $5.00 stupid comment so sick of people hating on each other.and using dumb phrase $5.00 Indian you sound stupid.

  • @mariehoadley2075
    @mariehoadley2075 Před 3 lety +2

    My father was full blackfeet, my grand parents and great grand parents. I love to learn ml of my n.v heritage

  • @michelled.driver4728
    @michelled.driver4728 Před 6 lety +6

    Im blackfoot I love my tribe

  • @Ksikkihkini
    @Ksikkihkini Před 5 lety +5

    How can you know WHO you are, when you don't even know who the First People were. Blackfeet is a name given buy Europeans, I am Pikuni, the name we called ourselves before the 3 separated! What are you?

    • @uhVerz
      @uhVerz Před 5 lety +1

      Siksika in Alberta is my tribe, my real name is Desmond Calfchild. Treaty 7

  • @clarahiestand1402
    @clarahiestand1402 Před 4 lety +1

    I grew up in St Mary MT on the Rez, I’m originally from Bulgaria though, I have such respect for the Natives I grew up with.

  • @leliacogar9051
    @leliacogar9051 Před 3 lety

    I too have blackfeet from mothers side..I think I remember hearing her say my father also was part blackfeet..my sister married into the Cherokee tribe..we truly believe of the spirit world.also a lot of white in us.😊🐴

  • @justme-cr3xe
    @justme-cr3xe Před 7 lety +10

    what you said...i was given up and adopted to the "united nation " family, whom i Love. yet there is a calling, to come home. to a land that is in the MONTANA. Someone told me that i would find what i was looking for in my home MONTANA. and the Canada lands..

    • @terribletanner805
      @terribletanner805 Před 6 lety

      Find what, exactly? True love? Inner peace? Or just another city?

    • @adrianm3033
      @adrianm3033 Před 6 lety

      canada lands is NOT CANADA BUT FULLY BELONGS TO THE NATIVE and i am ashamed of what they did to them

    • @adrianm3033
      @adrianm3033 Před 6 lety

      HOW CAN I HELP or become part of the natives as i am indian

    • @mountainchief2163
      @mountainchief2163 Před 5 lety

      @@adrianm3033 .. You can make checks out payable to "Mountain Chief", and slap yourself in the face with a rubber chicken at sunrise every day.. Then I'll let you in, maybe

  • @mofire3193
    @mofire3193 Před 5 lety +11

    Im Blackfeet👣👣 & Cherokee 🏹

    • @nkel6111
      @nkel6111 Před 4 lety +1

      and you are confused or a liar

    • @bethbartlett5692
      @bethbartlett5692 Před 4 lety

      @@nkel6111
      Oh - why judge others -

    • @bethbartlett5692
      @bethbartlett5692 Před 4 lety

      This is neat

    • @nkel6111
      @nkel6111 Před 4 lety +1

      @@bethbartlett5692my dear... because I as an indian...have to live in this bullshit fabricated world where their junk says to you white folk and more that we are backworld boofos. Plus I despise liars

    • @heathert5455
      @heathert5455 Před 4 lety

      That is cool. I have Ojibwe (Chippewa) ancestry from my father and Blackfoot ancestry from my mother. My father's maternal grandfather was full-blooded Ojibwe from the Swan Creek tribe (Saginaw, Swan Creek and Black River bands of Chippewa Indians) and his clan was the Turtle/Bear. I am apart of the tribe too, obviously, but I live my life as a white person (other than some subtle Indigenous facial features, I look like a white person who tans really well in the summer, and who has thick, wavy, silky hair that grows like a weed)😅 As for my mother's side of the family, it was my mother's father's mother's paternal grandmother who was Blackfoot. I don't know grandma's tribe or her Indigenous name but I was told that everyone called her Nancy (she died an old woman in the 1940s). It is kind of strange though, since my mother's father looks like an American Indian... genetics are a strange thing. I have an interest in getting to know my Indigenous roots/family; however, I am afraid of rejection. I know...it is stupid but it is a fear of mine since I was told by one of my uncles that we have some cousins who REALLY don't like white people and I am, obviously, mixed with European. Now, don't get me wrong...I love my European side too but I don't want to be treated like shit or rejected because I look more white than Indigenous.

  • @littlecrow292
    @littlecrow292 Před 5 lety +2

    Love you guys so much!

  • @jahmielwhite8372
    @jahmielwhite8372 Před 5 lety +5

    I think they are Mongolian and Caucasian . My family is Cherokee and they are real really dark

    • @koltonrunningcrane2523
      @koltonrunningcrane2523 Před 4 lety +1

      What Cherokee tribe are they enrolled in? They're probably mixed with Black people, the Cherokee used to have slaves.

  • @cherylynncostner4261
    @cherylynncostner4261 Před 5 lety +3

    Very creative. Thank you for the beautiful video.

  • @mikekavanagh8952
    @mikekavanagh8952 Před 6 lety +2

    Excellent Presentation,

  • @PeggyJame
    @PeggyJame Před 4 lety

    Horses are beautiful and strong.

  • @nikkisanford1233
    @nikkisanford1233 Před 4 lety +3

    Geez. Wonder if the white people will EVER listen to reason!!?? Natives know what they're talking about!! They should've been in charge for everything from day one!!!
    They're such beautiful people with such meaning -- I'd back them anyday -- power to the NATIVES!!🛶

    • @camyellowface1350
      @camyellowface1350 Před 7 dny

      First step is to get rid of the secret societies that control the minds.

  • @mikec9688
    @mikec9688 Před 3 lety +1

    I’m 51 y/o and my dad told me that my great grandmother was Blackfoot and he always told me I had Blackfoot Indian blood, I’m very proud to think that I do

  • @hoouch1
    @hoouch1 Před 3 měsíci

    We are privileged to live and work and raise our families on your homeland I pray and wish the true owners of the land have if not more than at least same rights over their land …✊✌️💔❤️🌎😢

  • @dellawill
    @dellawill Před 4 lety +2

    my great great great grandma.. Blackfoot indian.. proud.

  • @jvc.swedenjj.artisteri9334

    Wooooow, big Thanks from Jeanette von Cedric in sweden...

  • @robetap1911
    @robetap1911 Před 4 lety +1

    My grandmother said we r blackfoot ,I have always tried to learn and keep up with my heart as blackfoot,

  • @111seed2
    @111seed2 Před 3 lety

    Nature is our church. I feel this so deeply.

  • @jaylee6769
    @jaylee6769 Před 2 lety

    Beautiful documentary

  • @matthewmann8969
    @matthewmann8969 Před 6 lety +4

    Pure blooded Amerindians are not dissimilar in there appearance to Eskimos, Far East Asians, Polynesians, Central Asians, Northern Asians, And Some South Asians

    • @dn2ze
      @dn2ze Před 5 lety +2

      matthew mann you people do know that Natives and Inuits don’t see each other as same race, right? Seriously we are two different people and race. Inuits have raw diet like Asians. Natives like to cook their food. We have legends and myths about Inuits that crossed the land bridge. Inuit and Dene is to be warring tribes too plus why you think Inuits mostly stay in the North? In fact the land Inuits live on is mostly shared with Dene people. When Inuits and Dene started mingling that’s where Dogrib people came from....Americans really need education on these things big time.

    • @dn2ze
      @dn2ze Před 5 lety +2

      matthew mann one more thing, in Canada we are replacing “Indian” to “Indigenous” because let’s get this right once and for all. WE ARE NOT INDIANS! Lmao

  • @sherloncurtis8815
    @sherloncurtis8815 Před 3 lety +1

    My grandmother was part blackfoot and black american. I am proud to be part of that heritage.

  • @AZtea4UnME
    @AZtea4UnME Před 2 měsíci

    I know this story. The warrior with the scar. I remember. I remember every thing.

  • @justicekeyes308
    @justicekeyes308 Před 4 lety +1

    Absolutely paradise
    , don't let Loki in there!

  • @Caiquegua
    @Caiquegua Před 5 lety +4

    Stay foot in what you believe and fight for your rights. Our ancestors, our believe, our land and our tradition is what we fight for. It's hard we we have to strive for our community. Strive for the interference of others nations. They destroy our land, our tradition, our food, manipulated our vegetables, made many sick depended on pills and deadly penicillin, preparing such food to destroy the the people, mixed up culture with sick genes. We are what we are. We believe in our ancestors. We have rights as indigenous people. They steel our land our food, our heart teaching us trash and lies in seek for gold and petrol. No matter what, they are not interested in us as human being! Look up the hills think of the ancestors and how they have to move from their lands their goods and their family. They were obligated life or dead to others to take up other traditions, other religion. We had our own beliefs we don't need any church or pope the force us in their belief of in trash. Look up to the mountains and never again bow for the any creature. Nobody came or come to us in peace to our continent, to our nation to our people. They all have some intention to take our ancestors land. We were happy and healthy in our land. Now with the new world order we have to prepare how to to overcome this massacre. Stay foot to your beliefs! I am proud of you,your belief, your nation. You are not alone!YaguaG the spirit of an ancestors.

  • @ThePlayboyLen
    @ThePlayboyLen Před 7 lety +2

    Nice work. I use Wondershare as well.

  • @riplik6256
    @riplik6256 Před 4 lety

    My great great grandmother was full blooded blackfoot native American I'm happy to be an descendant of the blackfoot tribe I've heard stories of how she use to speak her language and how she use too set the dining room table with food on it and tell my family members not to touch that because it was for the spirits

  • @johna3153
    @johna3153 Před 6 lety +20

    Now it imply to descendants of Europeans! It sickens me to see what my people have become.

  • @AscheDjidoi
    @AscheDjidoi Před 5 lety

    Everyone in this video looks like my dad. He doesn't talk to any of his kids. I've been trying to get information about the family from him, but he only ever has little parts and pieces. I am having to rely on dreams and claircognizance for information. This is only worth mentioning here, because it's all been so startlingly in align with information I'm discovering irl. I just try to stay grateful to know anything at all.
    This is also one of the most compelling landscapes I've ever seen.

    • @irisreevis530
      @irisreevis530 Před 4 lety

      Asche Djidoi who are your people from the black feet tribe I can help u I know everyone lol

  • @babyrambo7300
    @babyrambo7300 Před 3 lety

    Ive been told since i was young that im blackfoot/siksikawa, & cherokee. One from my moms side and the other from my dads. Ive always loved nature, animals, been a natural with a hatchet/tomahawk & spear my whole life. Ive also always been ab right & wrong.
    Always said that nobody discovered america, Natives have been here long before any other settlers arrived. I believe they deserve reparations first and foremost if anyone is given that. Ion know i have alot of strong feelings. I hate government. Never even voted in my life and ill be 28 in 2 months.

  • @williambrown5731
    @williambrown5731 Před 5 lety +1

    Love the Bloods gang sign on silo at beginning of documentary

  • @jesseg9088
    @jesseg9088 Před 4 lety +2

    It’s time to close the reservations and stop the government money. It’s killing not helping.

  • @PolvoDeEstrellas77
    @PolvoDeEstrellas77 Před 2 lety

    My grandparents told us our history I’m proud Aztec Lumbee and Blackfoot! Each grandparent told me the struggles! We are the only way our history will live on!

  • @PeggyJame
    @PeggyJame Před 4 lety +1

    No more fossil fuels. We have solar panels and windmills and electric vehicles (if you can find them and use them)

  • @virginiaeasterling4347
    @virginiaeasterling4347 Před 5 lety +1

    I'm watching from Clanton Alabama with my 2 dogs

  • @danachos
    @danachos Před 5 lety +3

    Vive le Niitsítpiis-stahkoii libre!!

  • @Lahmekful
    @Lahmekful Před 5 lety +2

    Anybody here because of Dave Chappelle black feet joke ?

  • @adriagoff1774
    @adriagoff1774 Před 5 lety +4

    Blackfeet tribe via Louisiania. My great-grandmother with her long silver hair and she was so beautiful. My people! The land calls us.

  • @Wethepeople783
    @Wethepeople783 Před 4 lety

    I'm 1% Native American Blackfeet my grandfather was a Blackfoot born in 1847to1923wish I could have met him, my dad father.

  • @sandragraziani6312
    @sandragraziani6312 Před 5 lety +2

    Great people

  • @joeldm5278
    @joeldm5278 Před rokem

    The Sioux was a cruel..savage enemy

  • @beverlyjuniel7386
    @beverlyjuniel7386 Před 2 lety

    Native American men's is good looking people's and strong will.

  • @pat153-ku1lu
    @pat153-ku1lu Před 8 měsíci

    What a beautiful land ❤️

  • @marydavila1628
    @marydavila1628 Před 6 lety +7

    My grandma was Blackfoot indian born in main was married off the reservation Ana blue feather.wish I met her....

    • @DJ-ph2eg
      @DJ-ph2eg Před 5 lety

      Mary Davila it's never too late to me turn tribe

  • @restoringfreedom.ameraburd7597

    that's my grampa

  • @amandac7056
    @amandac7056 Před 2 lety

    I am Blackfeet...I been looking for my people all my life

  • @teresakarr4631
    @teresakarr4631 Před 5 lety +2

    Many people say they have some indian(blackfoot) blood coarsing through their veins. Yada knows.

  • @turtleislandersnorthamerica

    My people speak the truth here! All Mountains are sacred

  • @maryaldaco7228
    @maryaldaco7228 Před 5 lety +1

    Since I was a little girl I’ve supported the Native Americans, I always will. But in all , please don’t turn away from Jesus Christ who loves us all. I know about the nuns & priests, I Do!! But they aren’t Jesus & they didn’t have His love in their hearts and souls. God Bless you all, from ND and now Texas.