My great grandfather, I was told, was a knife fighter. My grandfather bought land from fur traders along the Missouri river and established a ranch. My young life was enriched with the stories around that region. Thank you for your story.
I learned to use and practiced with knives when I was young.. Was naturally a good shot too, and plenty tough. Envisioned myself as Daniel Boone. However, I don't think I could have taken the cold, and flat out misery of the mountains. Regarding the indians defering from entering very deep in that swamp, the 50 Hawken I purchased and practiced with, could hit a quarter at 50 yards. Indians believed in 'the strength of personal medicine', and several shots from a rifle like that they would not want any part of that.
Mountain men were most common in the North American Rocky Mountains from about 1810 through to the 1880s (with a peak population in the early 1840s). Approximately 3,000 mountain men ranged the mountains between 1820 and 1840, the peak beaver-harvesting period.
Not many modern folk would have made it back then. Crazy to think that lifestyle wasn't too terribly long ago. In the grand scheme. Good story, now a subscriber.
I've binge watched almost all of the HOKC videos and absolutely love them. Based on my other readings in Western history, they appear to be reasonably accurate.
I'll keep this point as narrowly focused as I can. Segment of the warm bodied seat. It not unusual to see references of using even bodies of there fellow companions in such ways. For example card tables. Life expectancy of a rocky mountain fur trapper was very short. A mountain man into retirement age is a exception instead of expectation. As someone who lived as close as possible traveling the Rockies from northern BC/ Alberta south to Mexico border with Bertha laying across between a pommel and myself, this was a way of callously facing there own mortality. Though it true I never faced a warring tribe, wild life, elements, or even a slip in judgment could be......
Im Oglala Lakota from Pine Ridge Indian Reservation South Dakota George Two Eagle 40yrsold i survived Alcoholism I'm forever thankful my grandfather's died for us to de here.. Relatives we need your support please don't let the indian die like this again! Drug Epidemic is upon us now! Pray for us I need horse's I need people with good heart's Lakota 23 Wamblinunpa
@@GodsHound444 Whoa. What a beautiful sounding language ! Thank you for this correction. ~"'Aho !"'~ my Sisika Black"feet" Brothah ! ✊ Signed; The Hyper-neurotic Yidd Kid from So. California ✋
@@GodsHound444 Yea but it was the Northern Niitsitapi (Siksika’s) that were referred to as blackfoot by other tribes. I believe Piikani’s were described as “spotted robes” but It’s been awhile since I’ve heard the story.
How could the trapper sit on a Blackfoot warrior? The Blackfoot upon leaving carried their dead back with them for burial, it states such in this video..
Wow eh, imagine the intense emotions everyone was feeling when the fighting was going on. The west was not for feeble minded people you needed to be more than tough to survive. Imagine what todays batch of people, whose feelings would probably be hurt by this video, would have done had they been apart of any of these type of exchanges. Much respect to the mountain men for holding their own against my ancestors.
If the facts are accurate on this one, that was a miserable performance by the natives. The odds were against the Blackfeet. 30-40 vs 20-30 mountain men. I love the mad dash painting. It is amusing, but if you have ever had to run for your life... you later ask, "How the F did I get away?!"
Nice story but the trap shown is a conibear style which wasn't in common use until the late 1950's, Get better pictures of period traps from the Fur Trade Museum in Chadron, Nebraska
Kenneth Fox This is a reply to a question you posted on a video about the Blackfoot Indians and the Mt. Men. The Blackfoot Indians got their guns from the Hudson Bay Company which built trading posts in Canada during the 1700s and later. These trading Posts would trade guns and many other tools and cooking ware to the Blackfoot and other Indians for Beaver Pelts and other furs. There was also the Northwest Fur Co that built trading posts in Canada which did the same. The Lewis and Clark expedition clashed with the Blackfoot in 1803 while crossing Montana, the Blackfoot had guns at that time.
I am a German. We have a really bad history when we re looking backwards and see how we treated the jewish people with our ``Rassegesetze``, But when I see how the americans treated the first nation people -sorry but from my view this was also a holocaust over some hundreds yeahrs! Nowdays you see the rests of these nations suffering,desorientated and destroyed! What are you doing with your past?
Yup, History is most viewed and accepted by the perspective of those who prevailed . I offer this, those who came here sought not to learn and share resources but to possess and gain wealth for which they saw as free for the taking by decree or by force or someone else would. The irony of American History is it still fundamentally does this via Government and Corporate power. Only a fool believes they can own land, water, forest, fish. Resources that are older than mankind and will exist longer than man. Stop paying taxes or registration on your homes and cars and see how long until your beloved Government takes it from you. We don't fault non Natives for wanting something better for themselves or their children but realize that your legacy was and is built on a false perspective of freedom.
running out ov books/podcast/college lecture... how would one learn about precolonization? Specifically the Blackfoot confederation's history. VERY specifically the Paegan tribes history and culture before migrating with the Blackfoot in the midwest.
no we're not. we are different ethnic groups. far different histories. we are only very distantly related. like how bengali and a european are related because theyre both indoeuropean.
The description you gave the blackfoot/ blackfeet's as a warrior culture is a bit too much & absolutely misleading. A warrior culture means those who fought for: land, family, traditions & honour and went to war no matter of odds. A warrior did not hesitate to sacrifice what he loves & to defend what Waka gave him, because he knew Waka will receive his sacrifice. These BF were brave against small groups but never a modern military, of the time. I recommend, before you draw boundaries of territory you consider those brave Nations who defended their lands against imperialism. The territory you mentioned belongs to a much larger Nation (The Great Sioux Nation's) Nakota, Dakota, Lakota. We don't claim a large region of land and not be on it, we are on lands we claim then & now.
Is that Why the GREAT SIOUX NATION paid the Blackfoot to let them live on their territory (Morley Alberta)? After SittingBull the Great war Chief tucked his Tail and hid on Blackfoot territory! Don't Talk $hit if you don't know your $hit
If anyone ever says that, it’s because they taught us that in school, they taught us that as a way to justify the colonizers stealing the land from native nations and peoples, not every native group was nomadic, many were either semi nomadic or had already established agriculture and farming techniques. Also don’t go calling people “native lovers” you sound like a racist idiot
@@agustinrico3304 The land was already stolen long before the first European ever reached it. If it was all right for indigenous people to violently take land from each other then why wasn't it okay for whites to do the same?
@@adampeters9861 the indigenous people before would fight wars like how the Europeans fought with each other. The colonizers came and promised peace, but would slaughter women and children, they’d make peace treaties with native peoples and than back track and betray them. That’s why we say they stole the land, because it’s not a comparable thing to how natives would fight for land against each other
@@mr.mcgurt2679 im literally blackfoot dumbass, i live on the reservation and have an official tribal ID. my whole family is full blooded, we are over 120,000 in our whole confederation still alive today. most of us live in montana, but i live on our canadian reserves. We had more modern battle tactics at the time than you europoors who just stood there in lines to throw lead walls at eachother beacuse you guys were so inaccurate with your muskets. we had guns and horses and utilized cavalry and rifle warfare, combined with bow and arrow, which was the favoured weapon in terms of speed, until repeating arms with brass self containing cartridges became mainstream in the 1860's-1870's. they would even have on foot tactics more closesly resembling modern tactics than european tactics at the time of standing lines. We would actually get on foot, seperate into units and storm a fort or town like a modern soldier would. The close range allowing for mostly rifles to be used and making for a more devestating effect. you can look up a book called "Native Norrth American Shields, armor and fortifications. which details in great depth the development of wartactics. The chapter on the plains goes into massive depth on the devestating combination of horses and bows which became replaced with guns when they became available the far west where lived in 1700's. maybe if europeans had better tactics it wouldnt have taken 300+ years to conquer us with industrialization and half the continent's resources vs us hunting fucking buffalo. you guys even let us keep most of our land in montana LMAOO
Mountain men were pure capitalists, dwho helped destroy whole eco-systems which caused issues we're still dealing with the effects today. The eradication of bevers, wolves, and buffalo for example.
@@davidgrant2008 and toilet paper and electricity and capitlism has gone on to prove to be boons to the environment? Oh wait they've all but polluted and destoyed most ecosystems that make up the natural world as we knew it in the short span of 200 years...
@@williampoppell5189that attitude of not caring how one survives is why capitalism has basically killed the world in only 200 years. It's a shity system that causes people prioritize short term gains for long term sustainability, and why its all falling apart now that theres no one left to conintually kill for more resource rich lands. But if all you wanted to do was improve your lot back then you could just marry into a native nation and live far better than in any city, until capitlaist destoryed that way of life by stealing your land and killing all the bufflo damning up all the rivers before forcing your family into poverty and poor nurtrion on reservations...
@@darthchingaso3613 yep its so easy to be concerned about the so called environment today while your computer or smartphone is made out a petroleum product and metal stripped mined out of the Congo forgetting that in the World then the more important environmental nessity of having to put food in your mouth, to do that you have hunt ,kill, butcher and cook and not get killed yourself. Much more pressing maters back then like staying alive so your children's children children's can sit in classroom with air-conditioning and a free lunch program.
Why is there this white boy covering all the Native American Battles? You got this info from someones book who was on ONE OF THE SIDE OF THE STORY. LIKE ALL HISTORY. 👍🏽
😅😅😅 That's where having an actual written language helps. Where people who had daily journals and reports helps. It's difficult to discern drawn stick figures like the dog soldier's book.
What did y’all do today? They asked at the Ravens Roost in Montana. We went to Browning? You did what? Don’t you know half the prison population of Montana comes from Browning? No? We had lunch there, and came back here. Later after we finished our second beer the entire bar went out the back door of the Roost. We figured it was time to go and did. Later that night we went to big mountain ski resort in a high class bar. The bar tender asked us what we did that day, and I looked at my sister and looked back at the bar tender and said we went to Browning. He exclaimed don’t you know half the prison population of Montana is from Browning! I said no, but on the way here we stopped by the ravens roost for beer, and told him of the unusual occurrence we had there. He looked at us and said the ravens roost is one of the biggest meth bars in the area! I looked at my sister and we laughed. Best story ever of our vacation to Montana LOL!
That’s what you’d expect to hear from our surrounding towns. Thanks for stopping and having lunch in B-town. We’re just like any other place we got the good, the bad, and the ugly. Yes there is some of us that hit the jails but that is a very small number compared to how many don’t end up in jail and never seen the inside of a jail.
