A Brutal Intertribal Raid : The Bloody Story Of The Battle Of Fort McKenrie
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- Опубликовано: 19 июн 2024
- Fort McKenzie, Montana, 1833. A small Blackfoot camp outside the walls of the recently constructed trading post of Fort McKenzie wake to a bucolic morning after a night of celebration and revelry. They have come to this fort to trade their plentiful buffalo robes for dried goods, cookware, and firearms.
But what should be a day of comradery and shared economic fortune turns into one of the most ferocious intertribal attacks on record. The Blackfoot’s long-time enemy, the Cree, have allied with Assiniboin warriors- another tribe long at-odds with the Blackfoot- and followed the Blackfoot to their camp, here outside the walls of Fort McKinley.
Now, caught off caught, their women and children must run for their lives, as their warriors stand ready to die in defense of their loved ones. What unfolds will be one of the most brutal, yet little-known stories in the history of the Old West.
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“The Blackfeet : Raiders On The Northwestern Plains” by John C. Ewers. a.co/d/ijwBd1i
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Bo...
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackfo...
www.britannica.com/topic/Blac...
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These historical accounts from the people who were witness to them are incredible. Great work.
Period pieces, eye witness accounts and archaeology give you the best idea of what really happened. Modern times always engage in revisionist history and rewrite it as to be seen thru the lens of modern politics and under the assumption people back then were stupid/superstitious/and us modern ppl know better. They had good reason for feeling the way they did, and certainly knew more about their world and times than a modern purple haired history professor at a state sponsored college.
@mikerelva6915 absolutely right, nicely said
@@mikerelva6915Agreed, but most history professors are not woke let alone purple haired victim connoisseurs. Sure, there are a few outrageous teachers + professors that make easy targets for ridicule, but the vast majority are just interested in history and not identity politics.
Content like this is why this channel is stupendous and great.
Thank you very much!
@@historyattheokcorral You are welcome.
Pikunni (Blackfeet) youth Mountain Chief, later a very famous Chief, was age ~13 at the time of a massive battle vs the Cree - he is my 8th great grand uncle, it was his first battle and he reported he killed 12-15 himself, most by knife and tomahawk.
Oki napai! Im Piikani, that was great to hear. Thanks. There are some interesting photos of Mountain Chief, he was a legend. Take care.
Cool should do one about The Crees Vs The Inuits as well as The Denes against The Inuits yeah.
Say what you will about Hollywood movies, watching westerns while growing up I learned the names of many of the American Indian tribes. In a way, movies -bad as they were-brought these people to life.
I mean, some were bad, but I love me some John Wayne sooo
Enjoy your content as well as your storytelling. Not far from where I live in Cheyenne Wyoming is a rock formation, which was the site of a bloody battle crow and Blackfoot in the 1830s. I like how you switch from German accent to your regular storytelling voice to your narrative.
Nice to catch this!
Greetings from Germany and thanks for the insight
I have to think of Ötzi, who was found not far from me.
A lot of interpretation, but probably in truth a simple fight for recourse in a tough area
What did you think of the narrators German accent?
@@colinglen4505 perfect german accent, sounds like Heros von Borcke (Jeb Stuart, adjudant? in Gods and generals).
but I dont have this hard german accent cuz iam half german half north african plus i grew up with BAOR Tommy`s, but in school during engl lessons my classmates had the same accent like the narrator sometimes a harder one, sounds terrible!!!!
@Tombrunner,
warum greetings from germany ? Ötzi wurde an der östereichisch italischen grenze gefunden, greetings from Austria wäre korrekter.
@@colinglen4505😂
Just prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall,I went to Innsbruck, Austria.My father was teaching a course on Geology, so we went to the Otzal glacier.Been captivated by Otzi ever since.
Still the best channel! Thanks for awesome entertainment 🎉
Thank you for a great story. I'd like to remind everyone that Europeans. suffered greatly from Plagues themselves 100 or more years before this so it's not like they knew what the. Heck they were carrying with them it just happen.
I always thoroughly enjoy your presentations.Karl Bodmer has become one of my favorite artists of the Old West.His attention to detail is unparalleled.
Another excellent video. Thank you chief.
Always enjoy your content. Thank you for sharing.😊
Thank you for these. I love when I get an alert there is a new episode coming
Thank you for watching!
Best new channel on RUclips. Love this channel
Thank you!!
Consistent as always HOKC.
I love the episodes with northern natives. Wondering if u have any stories related to the grosventure?
As usual, a great story
Gives me chills❤
Thanks for this story. I forgot how vicious intertribal warfare was, with no qtr given or asked for.
Dope ass stories.. keep them coming!
'Dope ass?' ... Good grief!
@colinglen4505 Good grief? Charly brown..
I love the video. Fuck dudes hating on accents, I like it. Keep doing your channel your way 🤙
I don't hate doing accents. I just can't understand what he's saying!
Great content but should do more
When I was little I always played cowboys and rooted for the them, since I got older I favor the indians.
I'm the exact opposite.
My grandfather is Creed/Blackfoot and a product of the treaty of the Cree and Blackfoot to join to fight the White Man. Though his parents married and had children(14), they were forbidden to live on or raise their children on EITHER tribe’s land or reservation. So they lived on a large farm in Iowa and taught their children very little of either Tribe. He also never knew any of his grandparents, only seeing his Blackfoot grandfather once in his entire life. Only his Blackfoot Uncle taught him anything of the Tribe and his history. He also had a couple Cree cousins that he knew that taught him some of his Cree history.
As a Cree,/blackfoot never knew my blood had a feud with each-other.
I agree with the other commentator. Excellent video, excellent storytelling but you really should drop the accent
I don't mind an accent, but I can't understand what's he's saying!
What ever they say 🤣 I am a German and you dit a great job with the accent 😊 Right from the Rheinland 😁;
Thank you! 😂🙏🏻
Bitte , Schoen
@@historyattheokcorral piece of history for you - Tube "" Wir Rufen deine Wolfe "". Dr Ludwig. Birth of the country & people.
Between 1497 til 1880 brutally was dished out in the most horrific way in the Americas. Mind boggling savagery that has never been covered in the movies. True hatred towards foe shown in the most unimaginable ways. Most folks these days never ponder the thought I am sure.
0:20 say that 3 times fast
Yep. All that were here - in the Americas- were in deadly combat more frequently than you think. Humans have been doing this warfare against eAch other since there humans that left one area for another - in an effort to keep their families alive (find food and water).
I liked the voice i thought it was good too
Another great episode and it underlines just how diverse and complicated the "west" was even before the white men arrived .
It sounds like hell on earth.
@@colinglen4505 Yes , a constant fight for survival.
😄😄😄
I love your storytelling, but I can't understand your German accent. Maybe if you slowed it down a little?
Ze german accent vas fun, if unexpected.
Is it Fort McKenrie or McKenzie? Lol. Jk.
By the way, at 3:12, the man photographed with the beard is indeed Karl Bodmer, the Swiss-French “print-maker, etcher, lithographer, zinc-engraver, draftsman, painter, illustrator, and hunter”-what a résumé, dude, wow-but I have a hard time believing he was 24 in THAT picture. Maybe no pictures exist of him at that young age, around when the Battle of Fort McKenzie took place. Whatever. Like I know times were hard back then, but my GOD, not enough to look f*cking 30-50 years older than your actual age, in your 20’s. 😆
Ze German accent ist wery gut
Intertribal? Just call it tribal! They been raiding each other long before we came here.
Indian karma
Blackfoot has the cooler name tomahawks down!!! Cree just sounds so weird…
You should hear the Cree's war cry. It's blood curdling! It's on RUclips.
The mossie society sounds grand🤣
I enjoy the accents.
Germanic accent was a-mazin'
Took me by surprise too. That was perfect!
Not a German accent except by people who fake German accents. This vid has a tiny Irish lilt.
I am Assiniboine aka Nakota Sioux, we split off from the 7 council fires in the 1650's and went north to join the Cree and Ojibwe and formed the "Iron Confederacy" u should do an episode on how different tribes went south and north like how the Apaches used do be up here in Canada same with the comanches but were pushed or simply migrated south
The Cree, etc, are much like American maps, American weather reports and revolting American history myths in American consiousness. They all end at the Canadian border line for some reason. What a pity . . .
Revolting history myths? I guess that you are intimately familiar with revolting....
@@kenneth9874 Can assure you it is a subject glanced at after discovering Davy Crockett didn't kill a bear at age 3.
The story of the Loyal Americans are unknown. As many as 170,000 left colonies their ancestors had served bled and died for over 100 yrs fighting the French. The Revolting Mob did not hesitate to Ally with them. Proved treachery pays.
Three sets of my own kin (studied in great depth) arrived in 1627, 1638 and 1652.
When did yours ?
Mine showed yours the way, no one ever said anything about killing bears at 3....why did your family have to flee?
@@kenneth9874 In 1761 the Isaac Man/Mann Sr family (Scots-Dutch) moved from NY city to 'Still Water' in upstate NY, made recenty safe by the end of the F&I wars. Purchased land lot section from old Albany Dutch. Leased 120 acre lots to settlers who believed it worth while. Among the latter was a group of 'Yellow Church' enthuasiasts from witch burning Salem. Old Isaac was Col of the local militia in which his sons ages ca 13-20 served. Disaster struck when a cannal he was constructing for mill work together with a land swindle over land in Vermont bankrupted him. He had to sell his lots to the 'Yellow Church' congregation whose leaders by now proved themselves 'dodgy' characters.
When the troubles began Old Isaac spoke out, he was arrested several times and was a minor celebrity because he claimed the right to 'Free Speach' that the revolting rebles claimed they stood for. Didn't help his case at all. Sent to various prisons till finally released after 2 years of cruel treatment and fled to Montreal with wife, leaving all property behind.
Meanwhile the 'Yellow Church' leaders had become local leaders of the 'Commitees of Corespondence. Isaacs sons (including the 13 yr old) were arrested. Released at different times and went to Montreal with some extra ordinary adventures along the way. They fought as Loyalist Militia at Saratoga, lost and escaped back to Canada after that disaster. One (my favourite) a 'scout' was captured near Still Water - he was exchanged for a revolting Lt the day before his proposed execution. All remustered into the Royal Kings Regiment of NY province, famous for their raids in upstate NY for the rest of hostilities.
This information comes from testimony given to post-war British Comissions set up to pay-off loses at 10% value, the extensive records held in the 'Haldimand' Papers avaliable on line and the minutes of the meetings of the Stillwater Comittee of Correspondence successor and correspondence with various historians 20-30 years ago.
@@kenneth9874Now that I have taken the time and trouble to share my familys American history, trust you will share your own if you are able. What did they do if as you claim they showed my own the way ?
Great history lesson.
But being a native German speaker myself: please dont try to speak with a German accent. 😉
Thank you. I can't understand a word of it! Ugh.
lol the german accent lol never again pls
Sounded like a bored Boris Becker.
They loved nothing more than doing disgusting things to each other. Thankfully they're all on reservations now and behaving themselves.
Not alone in that. From Charlemaine to Ukraine everybody gets in on the action.
Your assessment of the fur trade between euro powers is simplistic bordering on bull. Im Unsubscribing.
You clearly don't even understand the basics of what you're talking about.
You're great at telling stories, but seriously, please drop the attempt at different accents. It kinda ruins the story.
Vhaaht do zee mean?
The guy has 76.8K followers. Give him a break dude.
@@andre36wo”don’t criticize Hitler he has 15 million followers!!”
Do you see how dumb that is . Bigger channels actually deserve more scrutiny than smaller ones. Atleast he was nice about it , I wouldn’t have said it as nice 😂
@@andre36wo exactly, feedback is what will make his channel grow. The accent is horrible
@@monkeytribez ahhr you making prrahbems