Seems that whites have a hard time imagining these ancient tribal hatreds. But in the bad old days many/most Indian people lived in a state of war with certain neighbors. You learned the hatred/fear at Mom's knee and kept that fear to your last day. Even today this situation has not completely gone away.

@@badgerrrlattin35 Trust me, the Irish and Scots hold old grudges far older than this. So do Sicilians and many other Europeans. We just don't discuss them with outsiders. And I'm a 4th generation American. I'd point out that right now the Russian leadership seems intent on fighting out the old wars with the Grand Duchy of Poland-Lithuania again on the old battlefields of the Ukraine. The Grand Duchy dissolved in the 1600's. Most people just don't watch or listen to the Russian language media, even in translation. Then there's Serbia.

@@brianmccarthy5557 majority of American people don't know their own history,never mind others history. It's a shame.

I’m an eastern Shoshone and I got hit in the head with a jack handle by a couple of Blackfeet in Washington state. It was an ambush. I am willing to put old tribal animosity aside and consider us all Indians, however it is not a good idea to let my Gaurd down. Some people just can’t let go, and I think it’s sick and wrong. Maybe someday we can all get along, I’m willing to.

@@surrelljr I'm sorry that people all over this world just cannot let go of the past and try to make something better out of our situations. But blaming others has always been a hallmark of civilization. Go in Peace and God bless.

I'm part ojibou and have blackfoot relatives, I can assure you its so.

Chief irv blackfoot would come have coffee with ma and pa ,he always said ,"what are you padawadamees doing on my land ".? I miss them all badly

It’s like that with a lot of tribes, nowadays I think it’s a waste of time.

This Néhiyaw man loves the Siksika.

I have a cree friend from Alberta who went down to Montana for work and ran into some Blackfoot Natives and they jumped him lol and this was only 5 years ago

Rest easy Josh and sister

Rez Life is usually short. Peace to all the lost lives.

I'm from Siksika First Nation..

@@budb8226 I grew up just north east of caresland near where the 22x runs through now.

Okie! My dad was born in glecien siksika res. He was the oldest child of 4 and he was the only child in the family taken by white folk in the 60s scoop. Residential school type shit. He didn't find out his real name til he joined the army. And was told his family hated him and got beat when he spoke his language. Very sad. I wish we could reconnect with our family. I feel like I'm missing a part of my soul not knowing much about my culture or customs or my family. I met them once, and it was amazing. My father was very messed up cause of his childhood and traumatic experiences in the army. It's hard ro get him to commit to going down to the rez.

Thank you for being a fire fighter.

Blackfoot Cree and Sarcee will forever hate each other, As a Blackfoot I’ve been told it’s cause of years of difference between the Cree and with the Sarcee it’s cause of the land basically being taken by the Canadian government and given to them as most people tend to forget Sarcee isn’t a tribe that’s been here for forever.

Probably because you are all Inbred in Europe! My best Friend is Scottish and trust me they hate The English Same with Welsh and Irish So Rather you live under a rock or your Little Brain can't Retain that kind of information 😅

The adoption of crow foot finished the hate . We all buried the hatchet .

@@kyleklukas4808 adopted crowfoot?

@@theeverydayillusion7790 I am biracial 💯

@@theeverydayillusion7790 LOL 🤣

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White isn’t a nationality we all are mixed with something it doesn’t change our ancestors or are bloodline . Please treat people like you wanna be treated instead of cutting them down with ya close mindedness. But thanks for the share I’m also Cherokee , Blackfoot and Norse decent I got a lot of rebel fighting blood inside me . And I do follow the native beliefs and so do my kids.

Which band do you vote in ?

I grew up in Elbow SK. There is a monument near the marina dedicated to that battle.

*I agree. Most bands in from the prairies in Canada are all related by blood without exception. So literally these grievances mostly instigated by the fur trade practices were the original cause of these skirmishes & reprisals which culminated in this war. Maskipitoon or Broken Arm a renown & much feared by the Blackfeet had been killed two years earlier while on a peace mission to the Blackfeet. The Many Feathers band young men seeing he was unarmed took his scalp to be able to say they had taken the scalp of this famous warrior. The circumstances of his demise was the main catalyst for this war. Seeing it was the last & most recent war it is little wonder that it is still remembered. The last survivors of this war died in the 1950's so it was direct family history & further exacerbated by the fact that these people knew each other by their names & families often related to each other. The tragedies of 'commerce' or low-level warfare as expressed in Leviathan by Hobbes...* *Research the 'Rum Wars' [my name for this practice] or the wanton use of doctored alcohol by the Hudson's Bay Company in the vain of the opium wars....*

Lol what about before contact? Did have have repeating Bows or just Awesomeness

You must be Cree Because you have to read about your culture and you guys just sucked up to White people and lost ur culture

Plains cree whooped them with bows and horses

@@tommygiroux6512keep telling you self that

What a non-sequitur! What does warfare between "diverse European groups" have to do with warfare between tribes of Indians? How can you be so psychologically ignorant as to be unaware that you do not speak/cannot apologize for European people? As you said, they are a diverse group. "Encroaching" implies an undue intrusion. Do you not understand that is your opinion, and not a historical fact? This is a religious ideal that you hold simply on faith, without any evidence. You announce your race, you confess your race, you suffer a Marxist death from an oppressor from someone whose family befriended those who other whites "intruded against" - look how much perversity is in your short fantasy! And that's all it is, your fantasy. You could have talked about anything, but you had to draw some equivalency between the two groups - no doubt to turn attention away from the vast difference in developments between them. But.. do you see how what you actually did DRAWS attention to that fact, making YOU racist? You are the one perpetuating racism. That urge you feel to make things equal is the root of tyranny because to bring one up puts another down, which is not your right. Beware enforcing your ignorant nonsense on others.

My great-grandfather was the sheriff of Huerfano County. He married into the Dutton family that had several thousand acre ranch in what is now Trinidad. I wonder if our families ever traded livestock together.

We hope we have done honor to your history!

some bands of Blackfoot were on good terms with Cree people , intermarriage and camping together . It wasn't always black and white .

was married to a Blackfoot woman have one son with her.Very rank people don't know what I was thinking that a cree and Blackfoot could be married can never work

@@gabepowder4568 maybe you were the problem

maybe but I lived with the Blackfoot for a lot of years I do have Blackfoot friends but the majority of them have a lot of them still carry that feud with us crees . Aho

@@gabepowder4568 I highly doubt it was because of tribal differences more along the lines of compatibility

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A good night, nobody got killed.................

She be against the law to furnish alcohol to any Native American.

You speak the truth: Spent time there too,,, near cut bank,,,,,, at the Pioneer Bar,,,, and the Warbonnet in Browning,,,,, it was safer in Afghanistan at night,, daytime,, not so bad . It is a different world

@Larry Baker On the Black Feet reservation and most all of Montana reservations have no problem being called Indians. The high school mascot is called the Indians. As far as alcohol, If you're over 21, you're an adult. If you want to kill yourself, life choices.

@@larrybaker9924 Im Indian,,, who are you to decide that for me? Do your kids smoke pot??

This battle was written up in one of the old English textbooks used in Alberta - but I don't remember all those details from it, so I don't know if I'm thinking of the same story .....

There is a band of lakotah called "those with black feet". From what I remember is the band survived a prairie fire. It is one of the 7 bands, now called tribes, of the Lakotah. It has a different name now days and I can remember all 7 bands right now.

The bunch in Canada are known as 'Blackfoot'.

@@ralphdavis6052 Sihasapa ( Blackfoot) live on the Standing Rock Reservation. and no h in Lakota

We are the blackfeet band of the Blackfoot confederacy and there's only two true bands of 5 and two bands were absorbed one by soiuxs and one by snakes after killing Custer never to return hence blackfeet souix and Blackfoot idaho

@@native4063 wait, you're Siksika? Since when did the Shoshone assimilate a Blackfeet band? You guys fought eachother

*Because for the most part it is a white myth...*

@@nun_bel_eever Yeah tribes didn’t have warriors before the white devil came, they all held hands in peaceful solidarity 🙄 please think for yourself

@@humboldtharry1289 *I do think for myself & know my history not some fucking joke in a white man's book...* *Idiot sticks relying on their high scFOOL education. Sad....* *@History at The OK Corral Peeapote is a very bad & almost irreverent pronunciation of the chief's name. It would sound in English accent as 'Pie uh pwat' which meant Sioux Secrets or Keeper of the Sioux Secrets as he was half Sioux & Cree like his band. This band wintered in the Cypress hills & hunted buffalo on the prairie. You also showed Poundmaker who was Cree by birth but adopted by Crowfoot a reknown Blackfoot chief & whose band for the most part abstained from this battle or properly rout of the Cree. The two chiefs who led the Cree were Big Bear & his headman Little Pine well known Battleford or the Eagle Hills Cree whose summer hunt required progressively further forays into this area to maintain their annual hunts. A few years earlier a most well known & respected Cree chief Mas-kip-ee-toon or Broken Arm much feared by the Blackfoot had been converted to Christianity & became a staunch advocate for peace between these warring nations. Members of a Blackfoot chief named Many Feathers' band exacted revenge upon an unarmed Broken Arm who had approached their camp on a peace mission & young men realizing he was unarmed sought to make a name for themselves by taking his scalp. This act set the tone for a misguided revenge by the Cree which ended in disaster for the Cree.* *@GiasJulii julii A recent hate which was because of the Cree being armed with guns prior to the Blackfeet obtaining them. The Hudson's Bay Company commercialized the hunting which used to sustain them in their own lands. Once the Cree had hunted out their lands to supply the Hudson's Bay Company they had no choice but to expand their territory to try to stay fed. There were 30,000 kegs of rum annually brought into Hudson's Bay which was diluted with various admixes including opium derivatives into 300,000 kegs. The Hudson's Bay wouldn't trade any merchandize until all of the furs had been expended on this concoction. Let it be known that these drugged Indians were incited to go after more territory while in this state. Further they were given goods on credit due next year which required them to obtain new trapping areas. Also when Hudson' Bay men were angry with a particular tribe they would incite their 1/2 Cree children or alternately their 1/2 Blackfeet children to violence on behalf of the Company & these feuds became bitter & longstanding memories as they didn't exist prior to the whites arrival. Before this time in order to be killed by another tribe you had to offend well known tribal customs of contact.* *While there was conflict as there is with any peoples it was not conducted in the senseless European way of standing in a line with a brightly colored jacket to present a target to the enemy as this was the way the crown kept its power. Why do you think that your ancestors were willing to come here with no land or resources in their pockets?* *As always your ancestors took our fighting strategies & adopted them as your own & to this day airborne call on one of the most prominent Chiefs when they bail from an aircraft...*

Inter-tribal warfare

@@humboldtharry1289 some that did hold hands in solidarity, the Haudenosaunee, were a model that the invading white man copied forming their gov't after breaking away from the yoke of the British monarchy

Many native groups learned how to read and write, especially those who converted to Catholicism. That goes back in the 1600's in what is now most of Canada and the US. The Pueblos and the natives of Central and South America had their current written languages developed with Catholic priests mostly in the 1500's. Of course many had their own writing systems before that. There is no evidence yet that the great mound building civilizations of North America like the Natchez, who closely resembled the Nahuatl and Mayan cultures, had a writing system of their own in pre-Columbian times but it's worth noting that the Cherokee and other Civilized Tribes are descendents or cousins of the great urban mound building cultures. The Cherokees are unique in that it was the Cherokee Sequoyah who created their written language. Like most Cherokee by that time he was of mixed race but identified, and was recognized, as a tribal member by his maternal line of descent. Many other native languages have a written form but, like several European languages (e.g. Russian), they were developed by foreign missionaries rather than by indigenous converts.

@@brianmccarthy5557 that is great to know. I am interested in all civilizations. My point is to say that they don't have a library but rather their knowledge comes from an oral tradition. However if you know where I may find such a written history by North or South American I would love to read them. What is the name of South American civilization that a Spanish priest saved from the Conquistadors ?

@@brianmccarthy5557 name 3 Central American cultures with native writing systems

@@jamesdeen3011 they invented their own written language, but plenty of natives could read and write. it goes without saying that literacy today is the norm among native americans too - I know its not what you meant, but we ought to remember how these nations still exist! Also the Mayans, Zapotecs, Olmecs, Aztecs, and possibly other indigenous peoples of Mexico had glyphic writing not unlike Chinese or ancient Egyptian, so what you say only really holds true of those in the United States

@@sankarchaya yes I knew they existed, no thanks to the conquistadors. And you are right I merely wanted to say that I appreciate his work and to say thanks. I can also say thank you for your response. I'm sure with your info I can look it up. 👍👍

I read that if Jerry Potts would have lived in the United States, he would have been as famous as Daniel Boone or Jim Bridger.

Jerry Potts was a Blackfoot he spoke 7 prairie languages. Of course white People and Metis try claim him

Fun fact: until 1905 and the Canadian Homestead Act that brought my four American grandparents to Canada, there was NO BORDER. IT didn't exist for people. You just showed up and moved in!!!!

@@Dwightstjohn-fo8ki Thanks for the facts, I learned something new today! Don't know how I missed that one, always have been sort of a history nerd. Best wishes to you my North American brother.

I suspect that the illustration was not specific to that battle but just one showing intertribal warfare. By 1870 that part of North American was certainly considered part of Canada. canada map 1870

@@marcusaetius9309 Jerry Potts was born in 1840 at Fort McKenzie on the Missouri River. His father was a Scot named Andrew R. Potts who was working as a clerk for the American Fur Co. His mother was Namo-pisi or Crooked Back of the Kainai or Blood tribe of the Blackfoot Confederacy. He married two Piikani or North Piegan sisters. He worked as a scout and guide for the Whiskey Traders out of Ft. Benton Montana until the North West Mounted Police arrived in 1874. He worked as a scout, guide and translator for the NWMP until he died on July 14, 1896. He is still a legend in Alberta history. The Potts family still live on the Piikani Reserve and many of them are members of the RCMP.

@@anulfadventures Thanks Jack 👍🏻

Born and raised in Canada, got most of my history from people who were here a century ago. Sometimes have had the privilege of hearing an elder of a different culture; very interesting.

@@absue Canadian history is "Upper Canadian (Ontario) history and "Lower Canadian (Quebec) history. Frenchmen Englishmen, beavers and canoes. Candian history is larger and richer than that. The East Coast fisheries were 3 times more valuable than the fur trade. Don't hear that often!

This isn’t really a defining moment or Canada’s history which is why you were not taught it there are a lot of events and battles you probably don’t know about it you are interested in this kind of stuff you have to look for it there’s only so much time in a school day/year

Blackfoot had 14 casualties and Cree had in the 350 casualties give or take

Jerry Potts.

Ugh a verbal typo that will live infamy. 😭😂

Where is this Wolf Creek. I live in Chickasaw territory near a wolf creek but don’t know if it’s the same as yours.

@@conradnelson5283 This is Wolf Creek in Northwest Oklahoma. This particular battle happened Norteast of Gage Oklahoma, where 25 Mile creek joins the bigger Wolf. 25 Mile was named so because in an expedition under George Custer, they had traveled 25 miles Southwest, from Camp Supply, which later became Ft. Supply. They knew the distance because they used a measuring wheel during their March, mapping the country as they moved.

@@conradnelson5283 I should make clear, Custer’s column traveled Southwest on Wolf creek where Camp Supply was then located on the Wolf. The present town of Ft. Supply is in that general area now. Wolf creek was dammed to form the present day Ft. Supply Lake.

I am sure the Ojibwa kicked their ass. They kicked them all the way out of Minnesota.

Unfortunately Native on native violence is all too common. We are our own worst enemies.

yes, they are separate provinces. There is no Saskatchewan, Alberta. I think he probably meant 'near the Saskatchewan border of Alberta'. At least I would like to think so.

Saskatchatoon

Yes we were

@@nuksookoaw-pp1fsThen how do you explain this video?

@@josephoneil3093 this is battle is from the 1860s you Moron not Precontact

The Cree are a Beta tribe when Blackfoot walk in the Room

parts of alberta, manitoba and a bite south of Saskatchewan.

brought to you by the HBC who introduced guns , powder and various diseases before that war happened but not as many were killed . Guns really changed the equation .

@@Skammee this isn't about Europeans. Just can't stand to not be a racist

@@emadbagheriJust show’s how much of an uneducated dumbass he is, doesn’t even know the sea of blood in his history or the blood spilled in the middle east for 20 year’s.

When there is a shortage of food, people will kill to survive. It happened in many places on earth where people decided that killing some was better than everyone starving together. Also, there are those who go wild in battle and will keep killing until they themselves are killed or until no enemy is left to kill. There were probably hundreds, maybe thousands, of slaughters that have taken place throughout the world in which so few survived that the names of the groups involved have been lost forever.

Dang it! We talked about this during recording and thought "Oldmun" would likely be the more Canadian pronunciation. No disrespect intended! Thank you letting us know!

@@historyattheokcorral and the Porcupine Hills are the "spine" of the Old Man. I believe that river is a Class 3 or 5 whitewater kayaking location now.

He spoke 7 Native languages and 40+ kills

Lol you did you Mossum tell you that? The Stonies was Scared of the BLACKFOOT and they paid us not to kill them. Cree were useless and couldn't come to or through BLACKFOOT territory because we to Deadly. LOOK IT UP

@@makoyiniito1897 no, it's well documented. Also I found no such claims in my research about having to pay off a tribe to have permission to live but I encourage you to look it up there's no point in debates on KZfaq.

Maybe Talk to some Elders instead of reading books. Morley Alberta (Still here)when Sitting bull Fled to Canada

Haha much love and respect my cousin. Im a cree half breed ive been told stories but they always ended with if we were born back then we would of been killed lol. Also blood tribe is an awesome name. Also i hold no ill will because it would be plain silly for me to hold a grudge i know nothing of lol. Peace love and happiness to you my cousin. And to all the other cousins out their

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True, and typically the European half of the Metis was French Canadian. 👍🏻

We? We aren’t the same. We’re the aboriginals of the Americas, y’all aren’t. But yeah, y’all do think of us as animals. What did that lady call us? Indigenous Creatures? Y’all always seen us as such.

@@buffalobilly6926 She didn't call you or the indians animals. She said 'like the animals WE are' meaning all human race. There's blood and atrocities in EVERY war on the planet and I can certainly assure you that the indians are more honorable than most.

@@buffalobilly6926 i think she’s talking about the human race as a whole

Battle at Big Knife near an Alberta provincial park, Blackfoot and Cree. Blackfoot at Fort Pitt

@@tobias1959 Do you have a link to an article on that? I'd be interested in learning more. I only found articles on the battles of Cut Knife and Fort Pitt, both in Saskatchewan and both between Cree and Canadian government forces in the Northwest Rebellion. Both also smaller than the Battle of Belly River.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Knife_Provincial_Park the Park but interesting history as to it's name Big Knife

@@tobias1959 Interesting. Alberta has a lot of place names that are direct translations from Indeigenous names.

@@5h0rgunn45 Interesting place Rupertsland.