Undead Warriors in Blackfoot Tradition
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- Опубліковано 30 тра 2024
- One recurring theme in Blackfoot tradition is the belief that, with preternatural assistance, it was possible for recently deceased human beings to come back from the dead. In this video, we explore the ancient Blackfoot belief in undead warriors and historical accounts of near-resurrection.
0:00:00 - Introduction
0:02:38 - The Ghost Medicine Pipe
0:07:27 - The Adventures of Bull Turns Round
0:11:13 - The Death of Low Horn
0:14:50 - The Death of White Elk Horn
0:19:48 - The Amazing Death of Calf Shirt
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The Great Sandhills area looks truly otherworldly. I totally see how you would think of that as the land of the dead.
It's a duality. There's a life force in everything in nature. A body and a spirit. So in this place, when you are looking at it, you are seeing only the physical place. Know that the energy or life force of this place is also real and strange to say the least.
@@savageelite8897 yeah I believe it. I've never been to the plains area in general and I'd love to visit some time. I want to learn more about the native history of the place.
The first tale from the Vengeful Wife reminds me heavily of Orpheus and Eurydice, but I enjoyed that their tale had a happier ending than their Hellenistic counterparts.
Yes they are part of an ancient myth tradition that dates back to the ice age
Came to the comments to say this exactly 👍👍👍
I'm blackfoot ,Cherokee and Irish mixed . Thank you for this amazing article and awesome video, thank you for all your hard work and energy that you put into this information thank you
I grew up “up north”. I really enjoy hearing these legends and it’s nice to hear your accent.
Always good stuff Hammerson. You are a wordsmith of the highest order. A veritable modern day bard.
What he said.
Lol
Here! Here! 🎉❤
So rare to hear mention of John Johnston. I once talked to an Apsáalooke (Absaroka or Crow) lady in Tacoma. She told me her people do not speak of Johnston. I didn't press her on it.
Interesting!
......do they avoid fried liver?
11:44 - 11:48 just after the story of Bull Turns Round while the camera is panning right to left along the river there is a ghostly shadow of a buffalo running left to right.
Anybody else see it?
Good eye! That was an unusually thick cloud of birds. The quality of my camera just isn't very high.
Woah. Thanks for pointing that out
Outstanding as always. This channel is so much better than anything on cable. I would like to see the History ch pick this man up just so he could get some money that he definitely deserves. Thank you from northern Indiana.
He most likely gets paid by youtube. Look how much they get paid.
Especially if you watch the ads all the way through then he will get money for every ad you don't skip.
If he keeps going and improves the visuals slightly like Middle East mysteries he will get that UA-cam money no problem
Awsome. My great grandmother was Blackfoot. Unfortunately up until recent history(1960’s) you had to keep that quit.
Why u couldnt say?
@@OloRishaCreole504 Canadian government made it illegal for natives to speak their language and culture back then. They tried to “civilise” them which meant making them become european
@@makeytgreatagain6256 well the same thing happened with my family here in Louisiana as afar as you had to learn an speak english an traditional spirituality was frowned upon... but what i was asking him..why did he say they had to keep quiet about being Blackfoot
@@OloRishaCreole504 ah I see my bad 😞 I just assumed I knew what you was asking. Sorry I cannot say why
My family has always been proud to be Niitsitapi. Never kept quiet.
I got the notification, I'm on it like a duck on a June bug.
👀😂👍
In reference to the first story... There's a version for nearly every culture that's similar except I've NEVER once encountered a version that ended in a positive note (like in Greek myth or even in my own culture)... Every version I've ever heard ends with the husband looking back...
My grandfather was a shaman and I once asked him what the spirit world looked like and he'd replied, "it's just like this world except it's always dark."
It's stories like these that remind me of my own people's stories and those retold and orally passed down by my parents and grandparents, stories they used to tell us as children and even when we got older... My Mom actually knew many stories in their original form, retold and spoken out loud in poetic verse... One of my greatest regrets is not recording them when my folks and grandparents were still around
The Blackfoot also had stories of native speaking owls and that they were usually Messengers of bad omens and they were to be chased off
Also when leaving a haunted place spit on the ground behind you and this will prevent any bad spirits from following you
LMAO where did you hear this? Naw you offer some tobacco and leave it alone.
Don't forget to whistle at the northern lights
I’ve been told the owl is a messenger to just be on the lookout for something bad to happen.
This is true. Although people that chase them off are simply afraid of them. Most folks would smudge and pray after witnessing something like that, even offer something as a sign of respect. Spitting sounds funny but it's that old knowledge...it just works!
You usually give a command of some sort to not follow you then spit.
Love your videos nice to see Canadian history mythology represented
The story of bull turns around and wolf tail sounds almost exactly like the ancient Egyptian tale of Osiris and set
Interesting!
The afterlife is almost described as the same place.
The one w the ghost wife also sounds like a Greek myth I’ve heard. Only the dead wife doesn’t make it out of the underworld to be w her husband again.
It’s pretty interesting how stories from across the world are so similar.
@@bigmig808 also they both lived in triangles
@@chiletheghetto7763 you are correct I noticed that but didn't say anything.
As an adopted member of Kainai & Piikani I’m actually happy to watch this video about my people.
That was an excellent read. Now I have a small knowledge of the amazing Blackfoot Indians. What a lot of people do not realize is that these story's are based on factual events. Stories like this actually existed.
I love how you use preternatural in place of supernatural.
its a whole level above supernateral and even supranatural...
I'm glad you appreciate that! I've heard a few times that word "supernatural" denotes divinity, so I've tried to reserve it for that.
@@HammersonPeters tbh, is anything truly supernatural (beyond nature)?
Seems to me that supernatural really means "beyond our expectations".
Love this channel. It was nice to hear about Lethbridge and some history from around my home in southern AB
Hells yeah!
You're the only creator I get excited whenever I see a new video from! I know I'm gonna love it!
You've walked on my morning walking trails . Beautiful ❤
Great stories, thank you.
Finally!! Been waiting patiently!! You're the BEST!!!
Good morning from California. Wish I could share the stories of spending the first 5 years of my life in what was a Saloon during the Gold Rush here in Cali. Thought I was crazy until I brought that place up to my parents as a teenager. Another Saloon for the old Santa Margarita Mine, you wouldn't even know our house was a Saloon in its early past.
Good morning from sacrament o
@@bhaktapeter3501 Sup from Sac as well.👻
Hearing these stories makes me miss home. I grew up in N Van but spent a lot of time traveling old logging roads through Lillooet, up to Dawson Creek over to Grand Prairie and Fox Creek and down to Lethbridge and back across to Vancouver. I can picture most of these places you talk about so clearly. Spent a few years on the island as well. Now I’m stuck in the middle of the Pacific with no wings. Thank you for your stories
Can you get your wings back?
This has some similarity to the concept of Draugr in the old norwegian and icelandic sagas. The draug was a person who had died, but their soul had not passed on to the afterlife. It stayed in the dead body and could manipulate it as though it was alive. So, the draug was literally a living dead person.
The draugr tended to become more of how they had been in their ordinary life. Especially if they had been evil, they would be even more evil. The draug sometimes had magical powers, but not necessarily. The ways of ”killing” one differed from draug to draug. Some had to be cut to pieces by force, some could only be banished by magic formulae and/or by burning their clothes (that they had worn in life).
The draug generally kept its regular peronality, or parts of it, as well as its human intelligence. Their appearance would differ greatly depending on the way of their death and where they died. Some would be blue and swollen, some could look as ordinary humans, some like rotten skeletons, and so on…
There are stories of both landbased and waterbased draugr.
We’re using a draug in the halloween-walk on the open air museum where i work 😁
Very cool!
I will only disagree with you on similarities of draugr not because I want to start an argument but because your story and the Blackfoot stories is very reminiscent of the ancient Greeks take on hades and Persephone... chilling If you ask me
according to norse specialist jackson crawford a better word is aptrganga (after walker) or i dont know perhaps thats just the same thing as draugr here is a good video about the norse "zombies" ua-cam.com/video/eyBhvBUrmtU/v-deo.html
@@fourshore502 Yes, what Dr.JC is talking about is what in modern swedish is called a Gengångare (=someone who walks again). The concept of gengångare overlaps, as you suggest, with the concept of the draug and seems sometimes to be a more general term for the same type of being. The being in Eyrbyggja saga that Crawford talks about is a draug.
The draug in the Vinland Saga (can't remember his name) is interesting for dying due to illness, lying still awhile, then simply getting up to tell his wife something before dying for good. The way it's described - the old man in whose home this all takes place urges the widow not to speak back to draug, who calmly insists she listen to him - to me makes it sound like even when draugr weren't evil or causing trouble, they were still feared for their unpredictable magical potential. Zombies - or revenants, to use a less loaded term - seems to be a very widespread archetype in folklore (though maybe not as much as that of little people...)
Cool stories 😊
I love these fascinating stories. I suspect that "liver eating" Johnson is the real person that Robert Redford portrayed as Jeremiah Johnson in a much toned down version of his life
Still one of my favorite movies! First watched it when I was probably about 12. That would have been 1985.
Do you remember, is that the movie where his mentor taught him to bury coals under his bedroll on a cold night? I can’t remember if it was that movie or another mountain man one 😆. First survival technique I think I learned other than making a fire. We had a wood stove so I was making fires kind of before I can remember.
@@SVMSICE it's been awhile since I've seen the movie as well. I don't remember that particular scene but it could be in it
Yeah didn't put enough pine boughs down,saw it rite off.
Ghostly tobacco allows mortals to see shades of the dearly-departed...
Yes. But only the good stuff.
Sign me up
Interesting topic. Ty 4 covering it.
I'm originally from Coaldale Alberta. It's really neat to hear these stories. Thanks for posting.
Love these stories.Respect all the way from Wales 🏴
Fantastic content 👌🏻 💖👍🏻
The scene transitions with accompanying music reminds me so much of Ken Burn's The West. I love it so much, its great.
Thoroughly appreciate this 😌🙏
Rampaging zombies are the only thing worse than Rampaging sasquatches unless sasquatches are zombies 👍💯👍
Zomsquatch 😊
Those BLACKFOOT sounds pretty awesome
Love these short documentaries Hammerson!! Big Love
Showing my age here, but Liver Eating Johnson was the inspiration for the 1970's movie Jeremiah Johnson starring Robert Redford.
It may be an older movie, but it's an outstanding film that I highly recommend.
Love this channel, HP!!
Thank you for the very well done presentations.
Well done, kind sir.
Outstanding content thank you so much
Outstanding Hammerson! I will add to my playlist and play it over and over. I’m very impressed with your consistency and regular content. Excellent!
It gives us all something to look forward too. Any new audiobooks planned? Hopefully.
This is my third my listening
Thanks so much for sharing. I know that I have Blackfoot lineage and know very few of these stories and it helps me feel some sort of connection to a past that is gone but not forgotten.
Well told.
I am really digging the music that you use at 9:24. Do you have anyway of buying this music and the others that you use for home listening?
Another amazing video thank you.
I'm glad you like it! That's new music I made for my Ogopogo video. I haven't posted it by itself anywhere, unfortunately. If there's interest, maybe I'll put together a CD featuring some of my background music some day.
I would love to hear the full length of some of the music!
Awe yeah
I'm really starting to love your channel, but more than that; I respect your presentation and no-nonsense story telling. Thank you for sharing.
So... interesting
I've been harassed, hassled, heckled, hectored, and worst of all the butt of jokes among the endless, waving ghostly wandering spirits of the plains of the West wind, going on 5 centuries now...That is, until I came to my senses, and subscribed to THIS channel. By Thunder! I've been left in peace ever since. I implore you to do as I have done...You won't regret doing so. Why risk incurring the wrath of Sky Spirits?
Just happened on your channel. I am hooked great great stories.
One of your greatest hits, Hammerson. Merci beaucoup!
Good video 👍 should do the Irish mythology one how the Fairy/ Elven Race arrived to Ireland in Big Iron ships or (Space Ships) and lived underground it's interesting look it up look up changelings too how they swap bodies with human race.
The fist story is beautiful..🙂
Most excellent work as always!
Love these stories from the Native people of North and South America! Great channel,just subscribed!💕🏜️🙏
Having Peruvian ancestors myself, I have always believed in the spirits of nature and the ancestors exist on the material plane.
Good stories! Bit much on the zombies clickbait tho lol. Third tribe is also called Pikuni which we prefer. Also recommend talking to some current elders not just going by the books just to round out how we feel about some of these stories and getting some insight via oral traditions. Overall good job got a Amskapi Pikuni follower!
the 49th parallel is a Medicine Line ? That's interesting, it passes in my area
Good set of stories , thanks.
Awesome videos
Great stories, Thank You ♥️
Nice
Excellent!
You are a legend, great job
I "Accidentally" came acro... 😯 Ohhh...Oops . BAHAHAHA...🤠🖖
Just jokin . When I see it's a notification from Hammerson Peters, I can't wait to Watch The Show . Much Respect Sir.
Awesome hammerson. I'm a son of Charles "the Hammer" Martel and French Canadian. One of my favorite girlfriends, longterm, was Blackfoot. I loved this video. Thanks bra
Great stories love them. Thank you very much
I sent your videos to my families and they said the same facts, I’ve told to you earlier.
Got a new subscriber tonight! Well done!
More please!
I am loving your stories!
I'm so glad you are! Thanks for watching.
Bringing the 'Hammer'son on the anvil of wordsmithing! Great researching, and oratories! LIKE
On my mother's side I'm told I'm part Blackfoot. My great grand mother's great grandmother. Very interesting
Magic. Thank You
Another great one. Shit man, all your videos are well written and highly entertaining. Insane you haven't made it to a few 100k subs, luckily I was able to find you at the beginning when you had 5 or or so videos up. Thanks for the gratentertainment, the kind of content you cover seems to be getting scarce. THANK YOU!
Thanks for the kind words, and for sticking with me!
I just subscribed to your channel. Very good videos. I might also add to the LowHorn story, that after he was slain by the Cree/Assiniboine War Party, it was told that when they were burning the body parts of Low Horn, a kid from the Cree camp started singing Low Horn sparrow hawk song. While singing that song an ember from the fire landed on the ground and a bear appeared and killed 5 of the Crees. Later on the same Cree kid started singing Low Horns jack rabbit song, this conjured a group of wolves to appear, killing multiple Cree. The Cree continued North when the kid sang Low Horns Thunder song, in which a thunder storm appeared over them and a huge lightning bolt came down, striking the Crees, leaving more Crees dead. The Cree boy sang the 4th and final Low Horn song which was a song of the mouse, this caused a 7 Buffalo from nearby to trample and kill some of the Crees.
You know your stuff! I’m impressed.
@@HammersonPeters Thank you, I am actually from these tribes (Siksika and Kainai Nation) so I hear stories like this all the time. My family has some great history in Southern Alberta from living in the area of Chief Crowfoots final resting place and having direct ties to the great Sioux Warrior, Sitting Bull.
That’s awesome. You’ve got a fascinating heritage.
From Siksika and my mom’s last name is Lowhorn, so I’m curious about these stories too.
@@juiceman104 that’s really awesome I’m from the Bloods that’s awesome to hear brother
These are some fascinating stories. I believe that strange and seemingly unexplainable things do happen because of God's will
I love this
Nice 😊
Alright, alright, alright...!
I am a 44-year-old so-called african-american. My mom told me that we had Blackfoot Indian in our blood. And that a Blackfoot Indian chief was in our family tree when she looked it up. So I looked up what a Blackfoot Indian looks like. And my mother looked just like them. And she used to always say she was a Indian. She was a black woman. She was also a undefeated unisex boxer. She fought men and women and never lost. She had a library full of fighting books. She had weights and, a speed bag, heavy bag, and everything to practice fighting. She also had bow and arrows, darts and all kind of other unconventional weapons. She was a warrior for real. Her name was Hattie mae Davy. She was from Illinois.
Do more about the ghost pipe!
Wow my friend is right the first story is similar to the Orpheus and Eurdice myth.
Im part blackfoot i loved this video thank you ❤
The Ghost Medicine Pipe story it's almost exactly like the story of Orpheus going to the underworld to rescue Eurydice. The same conditions by the guardian of the dead lands, you can't look backwards to your love one or you will lost her. And if this story was told singing then it would serve the same way as the Orphic hymns and mysteries.
People regards mythology as nonse or just funny stories of the past, I'm not so sure about that as I study more I see there are versions of the same myths every where in the world in different cultures and places...
Really makes you wonder eh, lots of common stories from civilizations and cultures that never came across each other yet have similar traditions and beliefs
Yes they come from back in the ice age
The ancient ancestors of at least some native Americans and proto-indo-europeans at some point were part of an interconnected cultural complex in North Central Asia during the ice age, and some of their underworld or afterlife conceptualizations may have a common root. Specifically the idea of the underworld being passed a river and guarded by a spirit dog. It's possible that there's other connections or the people working from the same story would independently create similar narratives
Same I think there’s a lot more n the things ppl can’t explain they write off
...quite interesting.
nice
So many things in this world beyond our understanding
I grew up in Saint Charles missouri, the black foot creek Indians were lead by Blackhawk, I have many artifacts from when they were slaughtered by the calvary for killing soldiers and stealing gold from camp Cook at the weldon springs pass
But anywhere there are spirits there, I've seen them, heard them, felt them
Posting here for visibility: when you uploaded this video to Oddysee, the title was more like an editorial tag than what you've name it here. Not sure if you can edit it after the fact, but I figured you should know anyways
Whoops! Thanks for the heads up.
@@HammersonPeters You're welcome! Thank you for the well-researched content!
This was very enjoyable and well read. I would like to posit an addendum if I may. The Great Sand Hills mentioned in the first story are not located in Saskatchewan or anywhere else in this world and they are distinctly sulfur, not sand. This is a desolate region between the worlds and must be initially overcome by any human who intends to travel to the other world. It is commonly accessed by way of either inhaling a mixture known as the little smoke or by way of specialized dreaming practices but there are many, many ways to intend entrance.
It is in this desert of sulfur between the worlds where the fractured remnants of beings once human can be encountered, but is not a path that, of the few that are knowledgeable and strong enough, are willing to take.
Thank you.
That's a wicked name for a band
I spoke Saultaux
As a kid
My best friends mom always took me in
That crazy redheaded boy they d call me
And she would only speak to me in her native tongue(Saultaux)
It got to the point
I could understand
Everything she said and could speak many words and small phrases
That was the north end of Winnipeg in the mid eighties
Dangerous grounds
You Haddad know how to act to stay safe
Always fight back
Never refuse a scrap
You learn and get sick of being messed with
Anyway great video
Just made me think
Thanks
Oh almost forgot
Saultauxs and crees hate Blackfoot s till this day
And I know the feeling s mutual
Knew a few blackfoots in my day too
Very interesting. Out of curiosity, do you pronounce it SALT-toe or SOH-toe? I've heard both, and can't decide on which one I want to stick with.
@@HammersonPeters yeah
It's
Sew toe
Spoke in one syllable
Like "sotto" voice
That's how every saultaux I ever met
Said it anyways
I knew several friends and most of their families
But back then in Winnipeg
The crees vastly
Outnumbered the
Saultaux s
Hope I m making sense
Great channel
And glad I could help
Thanks
@@reddwing4368 Thanks for the info!
its funny but your first two tales echo Greek and Egyptian one the Greek story Euridice and Orpheus and the other can't remember the name but it was about the god Anubis and his cousin I think but not exact in either case by eerily similar
I thought the same, very interesting
Orpheus exactly - can we find other examples in other cultures? The story is so odd, but could it be a lesser known archetype myth?
Yea it’s true they all have a common origin
We are Blackfoot Indian descendants❤
The fact that the Blackfoot can take on the Shoshone and Sioux yet take these stories and beliefs just as seriously is really intriguing
Wym
The Sioux came to BLACKFOOT territory and paid them not to kill them and that's a historical fact
@@makoyiniito1897 only thing wrong about that is, the Aspaalooke people were between both Blackfoot and Lakota-Sioux. So the only Sioux our ancestors fought were the Nakoda-Sioux people. And the Dakota-Sioux never had any contact with the Blackfoot. And I'm both Dakota-Sioux and Siksika-Blackfoot. Get your facts right before boasting about things. The Cree have a saying about the Sioux, when the Mandan came we sent our young boys, when the Arikara came we sent our old men, when the Sioux came we painted our faces and prepared for death.
I think we thirst to learn this lands amazing stories n culture, which, if you think about it, belongs to all of us. Hence why we love it .
Interesting how the first story about the dead wife, similar tales are found in Greek mythology and Japanese mythology.
Yeah they have a common origin from before the ice age😊
You are invited the sand hills Hammerson, i didn't realize i was the keeper of the spirits!
Can i have a copy or source of the first ghost story please?
Surely i'm not alone in having the split second stoner thought to find and smoke out of that ritual pipe, am i?