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
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
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 !
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.
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 .
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!
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
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!!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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”
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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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
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?
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..
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.
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...
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..
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.
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
@@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. RU-vid 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 RU-vid 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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
Lee Francis here this is why, immigrants are allowed to live in North America to begin with ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-X0sScDTgyGU.html
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.
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
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.
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.
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"
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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
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.
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.
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!!!
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.
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
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.😊🐴
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..
@@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
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?
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.
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!!🛶
Pure blooded Amerindians are not dissimilar in there appearance to Eskimos, Far East Asians, Polynesians, Central Asians, Northern Asians, And Some South Asians
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.
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
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. 🦬🦬🦬🦬🦬🦬🦬🦬🦬🦬🦬🦬🦬
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 …✊✌️💔❤️🌎😢
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
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!
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.
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.
if I have no idea what tribe or area I came from or where my ancestors came from what should I do?? I feel disconnected from my family members but I'm strong because I still have both of my mother's my mom and mother Earth so I have a sense that I am grateful to be human but I would like to know more of my history can someone share their thoughts with me. The only thing I know is my great great grandfather was a very great Indian but I don't know his name
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.
