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One recurring motif in indigenous folklore across Canada is the Thunderbird – a huge eagle-like monster responsible for the creation of thunder and lightning. In this piece, we will examine some traditional native stories featuring this legendary monster.
0:00:00 – Introduction
0:01:00 – Thunderbird on the Columbia River
0:04:30 – Thunderbird on the Prairies
0:07:33 – Captain Charles Wilson’s Report
0:08:24 – Shout-out to Natural Gallant Bodybuilding
0:09:23 – Thunderbird on Southern Vancouver Island
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Your telling of this story's of the North , are my favorites. Thanks Hammerson,
Your efforts are appreciated always. Of course, Never Go Gently Into The Good Night 👀
For just $100, I will look at a bird, and you can start referring to yourself as a thunderbird. You can even go down to the courhouse and legally add "thunderbird" to your name, or print out business cards in which you call yourself a thunderbird! Won't potential customers find that interesting? And think what it would mean for your dating profile!
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I like it has Canadian content….Thank you
One of my favorite subjects! ❤️
In the Indian teepee aren't Indians able to have a small fire burning in the middle ; the smoke exiting out through a gap in the roof ?
The Siksika, Piikani and Kainai were the "Blackfeet". Always wanted to know that.
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I wake up on the other side of the world, hungover and hungry, and this is the first video I see when I open YouTube.
Bless you my friend. This is exactly what I needed to start my day off right.
Thunder Birds exist here in Northern Illinois to this very day
Great episode, Hammerson! Thank you for sharing.
I lub da tunder birb
Top notch video like always
My dude….thanks for the upload today….
My kids new teacher is Canadian and I think she's First Nations. Apparently her family eat grasshoppers 🤷
It's frightening to think how much of the oral history we've lost over the years ,for many reasons. From all over the world ,every place. All those stories never to be told, never heard. Lessons lost to time..
Thank you for all you do my friend. It's a wonderful thing.
Luv and respect from the UK. 💛👍👊💛
Thank you Hammerson. I love these videos. I appreciate the effort and time you put into these so much
In india they have a garuda bird which is very similar to the thunder bird
Where is Part 1?
Yay 👍🏼🌎💙….I read they just spotted the Stellers Sea Eagle in Maine….7 foot wing span
In 1997 I saw UFOs 3 different times, and once a Fkn Pterodactyl on Surfside Beach in Tx.
At 1st site of the large flying animal my buddy said
"It's a stork dumbass"
Then it flew directly over us,
The next thing he said was
"I want to go home now dude
Drive me home please"
great video and great research…I don't put much stock in indian folklore though.
Sweet
Oh man… I fully expected the white man to put on the sheep hides making him too heavy for the bird to pick up or perhaps acting like a parachute if the bird succeeded haha. Thanks for the vid, always a treat.
The native woman pictured at 0:22 – God, that face speaks volumes. It's an amazing photograph that gets me every time I come across it
Thanks again Hammerson. As a favor to this channel, and due to the fact that I enthusiastically incorporate weight training into my students and my own training, I went over to Jason's channel and subscribed. "Train the muscles, not the joints". Was the first thing I heard, and that's good advice. Anyway, I wanted to give back to your channel, and currently this is all I can do.
I love this episode on the legendary Thunderbirds. BTW Several years ago as I spent a summer in West Haven Connecticut, I think this was 2018. I was sitting on the front porch listening to my Spotify, when I witnessed a very large bird fly over the roof of the house I was staying at. I've never seen a bird so large before, not in real time, not right in front of me. It was both familiar and different from any bird I'd ever seen before. It was brown, and maybe an Eagle. It flew over head at about fifty to seventy feet. It landed on top of a light pole and stretched its wings out which I guess to be between ten to twelve feet from wing tip to wing tip. It took off again and circled around, until its obvious mate flew overhead. She landed on a similar lamp pole, paused and stretched her wings to rest. She was smaller, maybe eight to ten feet wingspan. They paused only a minute or two and then together they continued north up the east coast. I lived in America for fifty years and never saw or even heard of such birds before. Don't know what they were.
Thanks for all you do. Greetings from Vienna.
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The 1866 account. Shows how in just a few decades the Indians history was already muddled.
Skalahan story is the most interesting so far regardring the thunderbird. What if as many people think of bigfoot, the thunderbird might be a transdimensional entity. What Skalahan describes also sounds phenomenologically similar to a spiritual awakening
We Indians called these things pterodactyl