Blackfoot Confederacy
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Sep 25, 2026
Ted LinhartNARRATOR
In 1808 the keelboat returned to St. Louis loaded to the waterline with furs.
Ted LinhartNARRATOR
The Missouri Company was formally organized, and yearly expeditions were sent not only to the Big Horn but to the Three Forks of the Missouri, among the ferocious Blackfeet.
Ted LinhartNARRATOR
Of the two hundred and fifty men employed, fifty were trained riflemen for the defense of the trappers, but this did not prevent more than thirty men losing their lives at the hands of the Blackfeet within two years.
Ted LinhartNARRATOR
Among the victims was Drew Yard, struck down wheeling his horse round and round as a shield, literally torn to pieces by the exasperated savages and eaten according to the hideous superstition that the flesh of a brave man imparts bravery.
Ted LinhartNARRATOR
All the plundered clothing, ammunition, and peltries were carried to the Nor'westers' trading posts north of the boundary.
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Ted LinhartNARRATOR
The same difficulties were encountered at St. Louis in engaging men as at Montreal, and when Hunt was finally ready in March 1811 to set out with his sixty men up to Missouri, Lisa resurrected a liquor debt against Pierre Dorion, Hunt's interpreter, with a fluid that cheers a French Canadian charged at ten dollars a quart.
Ted LinhartNARRATOR
Pierre slipped Lisa's coil by going overland through the woods and meeting Hunt's party farther upstream, beyond the law.
Ted LinhartNARRATOR
Whatever his motive, Lisa at once organized a search party of twenty picked voyageurs to go up to Missouri to the rescue of that Andrew Hendry, who had fled from the Blackfeet over the mountains to Snake River.
J.R. HennemanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
in the Blackfoot language, there is no word for art like we have in English.
J.R. HennemanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Our Blackfeet advisors were drawn to the idea of storytellers as a way to think about the Blackfeet objects.
J.R. HennemanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
These are objects, artworks that continue to mean, to continue to tell stories to the community.
J.R. HennemanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
My name is J.R. Henneman, and I am the curator of the exhibition, The Blackfeet Nation and Charles M. Russell.
J.R. HennemanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's the first exhibition to honor and celebrate the reciprocity between the Western American artist, Charles Marion Russell, and the indigenous people on whose land he lived and worked.
J.R. HennemanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That story, however, had never been fully told.
J.R. HennemanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And this is the first time that this reciprocity between Russell and Indigenous creators is being explored and honored.
J.R. HennemanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There are difficult histories at play here that we have to take time grappling with and understanding.
speaker_27NARRATOR
CGSW 90.9 FM in Calgary.
speaker_27NARRATOR
This series of Audible Unconventions is broadcast to you on the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Confederacy, Métis Nation of Alberta Region 3, and home to the people of the Treaty 7 Region.
Sasha ChandaNARRATOR
But the tribal storyteller has passed, and only here and there is to be found a patriarch, who loves the legends of other days.
Sasha ChandaNARRATOR
Old Man, or Nappa, as he is called by the tribes of Blackfeet, is the strangest character in Indian folklore.
Sasha ChandaNARRATOR
Sometimes he appears as a god or creator, and again as a fool, a thief, or a clown.
Sasha ChandaNARRATOR
But to the Indian, Nappa is not the deity.
Sasha ChandaNARRATOR
He made many mistakes, was seldom to be trusted, and his works and pranks run from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Sasha ChandaNARRATOR
In fact, there are many stories in which Napa figures that will bear no telling at all.
Sasha ChandaNARRATOR
I propose to tell what I know of these legends, keeping as near as possible to the Indian style of storytelling, and using only tales told me by the older men of the Blackfeet, Chippewa and Cree tribes.
Sasha ChandaNARRATOR
Contents Why the Chipmunks' Back is Striped How the ducks got their fine feathers.
Jesselyn HolodynskiHOST
This podcast is created on the current and traditional territories of the peoples of Treaty 7, which includes the Blackfoot Confederacy, comprised of the Siksika, the Bikini, and the Kainai First Nations, the Tsutina First Nation, and the Stony Nakota, including Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Good Stony First Nations, as well as the Métis Nation within Alberta, including Nose Hill Métis District 5 and Elba Métis District 6, whose knowledge systems and approaches to understanding our world have sustained communities for thousands of years.
Jesselyn HolodynskiHOST
As we approach new technologies and ways of knowing through AI, we recognize the importance of diverse perspectives and the wisdom embedded in established knowledge systems that have long preceded any digital innovations.
Jesselyn HolodynskiHOST
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Skip HeitzigHOST
But I want to talk to you about daily devotions.
Skip HeitzigHOST
Now, this is a true story that happened to a man by the name of Crowfoot, who was the chief of the Blackfoot Indians in Alberta, Canada.
Skip HeitzigHOST
It seems that the Canadian Railroad needed to run their rail on his native land, his property from Calgary to Medicine Hat up in Alberta, Canada.
Skip HeitzigHOST
And so they needed permission.
Sammy ParkerHOST
And you're listening to Local Singles.
Sammy ParkerHOST
Before we get started today, we want to acknowledge and pay tribute to the traditional territories of the peoples of Treaty 7, which include the Blackfoot Confederacy, the Setenna First Nation, and the Stony Nakoda.
Sammy ParkerHOST
The City of Calgary is also home to the Métis Nation of Alberta, Districts 5 and 6.
Sammy ParkerHOST
All right, we're almost at the end of September.
David WalesNARRATOR
Day after day, they followed the little stream, for the Missouri River was only a creek now.
David WalesNARRATOR
One morning, Sacagawea, the bird woman, pointed out the place where she had been taken prisoner by the Blackfeet about six years before.
David WalesNARRATOR
Now, with the Americans and with her tiny baby on her back, she was returning to her girlhood home.
David WalesNARRATOR
The explorers were going directly toward the Three Forks of the Missouri, a point where three streams meeting formed the upper waters of the Missouri.
David WalesNARRATOR
They were on dangerous ground.
David WalesNARRATOR
Because this was a country famous for its hunting, it was also a famous battleground.
David WalesNARRATOR
From the north came the terrible Blackfeet, from the south the Shoshones, or Snakes, the tribe of Sacagawea, from the east the Crows, famous for their expert thievery and their long hair, from the west the Flatheads, always friendly to the white men, and the Nez Percés.
David WalesNARRATOR
The Nez Percés came over the mountains of the Bitterroot and through the valleys of the Rocky Mountains on hunting expeditions.
Michelle RobinsonHOST
Welcome to Native Calgarian and Masi for listening.
Michelle RobinsonHOST
I'm your host, Michelle Robinson, speaking to you in Mokinstas in the Blackfoot Confederacy, home of the Nitsatapi, Tsutina Dene, and the Yee Harhee Nakoda.
Michelle RobinsonHOST
I talk about history, current news, unheard news, book clubs, with special guests to give local or national issues a voice through an urban Satu Dene lens.
Michelle RobinsonHOST
My life's work will be to honour the voices of my ancestors and next generation with humour, love and truth.
Scott MitchellCORRESPONDENT
And treaty chiefs passed an emergency resolution to offer safe haven for gender-affirming medical care.
Scott MitchellCORRESPONDENT
Saddle Lake Cree Nation says chiefs from treaties 6, 7 and 8 and the Blackfoot Confederacy support treaty jurisdiction over health.
Scott MitchellCORRESPONDENT
Alberta law prohibits doctors from prescribing puberty blockers or hormone therapy to kids under the age of 16.
Scott MitchellCORRESPONDENT
Sports, the Blue Jays are back in action tonight facing the Rangers in Texas.
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