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I am the great^4 granddaughter of a Saàmi man who brought his biracial family (Saàmi/Norwegian) to homestead near the Blackfoot and Salish/Kootenai Confederation lands in Montana, rather than settle on the Norwegian reservation system. There are not many Saàmi descendants in the area now, but from the Homestead Act until just before World War II the communities around Flathead Lake were used to hearing the dialects of Indigenous/Saàmi/English and Norwegian!

@@brooklynnchick amazing and so interesting. A beautiful heritage and such a long journey to still share such similar cultural ways! My mother has told me we have Saámi blood but I have little way to research this..

@@sarahfrasher3513 You give beautiful affirmations, thank you 🙏 There are neat KZfaq videos of different Disney characters delivering their lines in the modern versions of their own languages. I showed these to my 6 and 7 year old sons, because the art on Kristoff’s sled (from the movie Frozen) and his reindeer Sven are ideas straight from Sàmi life. Wikipedia has a great article about it here : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frozen_(2013_film)#Scandinavian_and_Sámi_inspiration . Peculiar coloration in my mother’s family caused my grandmother to begin research; my mother is blue eyed with light blonde hair, but she has a full sister who has always been mistaken for a Salish/Kootenai Nation member, Latin American, or Mexican heritage. My aunt has long black hair and dark brown skin, she is a little shorter and built more broad than my mother (not fat, but larger more dense skeletally). The best resources my grandmother ever found were ship manifests, parish records (even though we weren’t Catholic), and emigration records from Norway which she said were easy to obtain since they all speak English!

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Written by white men who stole the Indian tribes land.

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Yes this was a project I worked on ten years ago in high school this was part of the teachers feedback too

@@the_rugaru thanks for responding. It certainly was a big project to tackle for a school project. Thank you for all the hard work you did. It was worth it.

@@grandmab4049 thank you!

@@wanderingwayspodcast You’re welcome

@@the_rugaru oh, I found the music very soothing and at just the right volume. And I'm usually very sensitive to that. I guess it depends on the person

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That is awesome knowledge to have. Another reason for it was when you look at the history of the Rocky boy and little shell tribes. They were traveling in smaller bands because at that time the government was trying to round them up and put them on reservations hence why the little Shell were recognized in 2019 and not the 1800 or 1900s. When you also look at this time frame there were less resources because of manifest destiny as well. Which would also be another reason that pushed the Ojibwe and Cree out towards the northern plains.

long home sounds good to me with the tibis for wondering around. Canadians sound like base culture for many plain ones.

@@the_rugaru*Manifest destiny? That is a white conscience balm so that they would think they were doing goD a favor by stealing Indian land from the devil. Nothing like stupid people in large masses. Very susceptible to buffalo hunting practices - you know make them elect a chief who leads them into the pound. Now why the devil had the land is another lie & it ain't white...*

You can still find evidence of teepees in some places in Montana. I came across the remnants of an ancient settlement, they would lign the base of their teepees with large rocks. There were dozens of rings of rocks on top of a hill and it was quite an experience to stand on the spot where people once lived and sleept hundreds of years ago.

I forget as well but Iroquois was one and I think there were several versons of the lake(great) tribes. Although of course many smaller tribes scattered throughout.

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Poetry isn't something traditional northern plains natives do. We have story tellers, but not poets. If an Indian is a poet, it's something learned from white American culture.

good i am glad!

The fire in the middle in the summer they would roll up the side and let’s the breeze in. Remember they were using real buffalo hide and leaving the fur as insulation sometimes as well as the other things they would make from animal hides

Yes they use the 4 pole base like the Blackfeet the only two in the state of Montana to traditionally do this

Yes! And they would even mix in elk and Moose hides

That’s awesome!!!

Go adventure and support the tribal campgrounds and help their economies

it may be a setting on your speakers

Yes and some of the northern bands were in the Blackfoot confederacy at one point

@@the_rugaru *Until the Cree were sent in by the HBCo & forced the Gros Venture down to Montana which resulted in the death of many of the tribe. The remnants joined other plains tribes where they had family ties. For instance Kehewin [Eagleman] a northern Cree chief's sister married Piapot [Sioux secret carrier] who was a Cree/Sioux chief of the Cypress hills area or Callingbull a mistamokamon or Long Knife a Sioux who came up from the plains & married into an Alberta Cree tribe. When you start to do the genealogy you find many blood ties. These were often overlooked because in the white world the man's status was forced upon his children & the woman's heritage erased whereas we had totems which gave us status through our mothers a tradition which continues today despite laws requiring the misogynist theme.*

@@nun_bel_eever thank you for this story. I am glad to always learn more. That is the complexities of these situations as we had natives all over living and trading on this continent for centuries prior to European contact. It wasn’t uncommon to see mingling. My family descends from the little shell Chippewa tribe but my grandfather is also enrolled Blackfoot and his father Cree/Chippewa was born on the Blackfoot reservation in a canyon seeking refuge. It’s wild how the US history books don’t teach us the truths

@@the_rugaru *We have to ensure that our history is kept as white history is a story to benefit the colonists.* *It is always a pleasure to share this with other seekers of truth.*

Most tribes have creation stories that have roots to places here in the Americas. For example the Sioux came out of wind cave in South Dakota

@@the_rugaru proof only say 12 thousand and now some say 18 thousand years they started coming to America in the west . but they find European in Europe a 8millin years ago and one million in America and in China whites was first in parts why Chinese so white they mixed , European all over the world

Archeological and anthropological evidence ( and Carbon 14 dating) traces their presence in the Americas to at least 12,000 years - though likely much longer. It it is well known that they hunted mamooths and mamooths were already extinct 2000 years ago.

False, the Bering strait theory isn’t credible. There’s archeological sites that put natives 20,000+ and now there’s articles about possibly 100,00+ years ago.

⁠@@onlythewise1There’s no direct proof that humans crossed the Bering strait 12,000 years ago. New study shows that the Bering strait wasn’t cross able until 36,700 years ago and before that 70,000 years ago. And not all natives have the same dna. Some are of Asian ancestry, and Polynesian ancestry. And it’s starting to look like a separate group of ancient humans originated in North America.

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Bamboo is from Asia not North America

www.katachiefs.com/is-it-a-tipi-tepee-or-even-a-kata-how-is-it-spelt/

@@the_rugaru ok….proved wrong. 😂