Plenty Coups

There is another story, and one that I find to be the more likely one after thinking about it, which involves a Crow chieftain.

That chief was named Plenty Coups, and I- it might be Plenty Coups, but the spelling was Coups.

And this is a completely different group of Native Americans.

Now, you gotta remember that the Blackfeet were an Algonquin group.

That is the same as the, uh, Secotan and Croatan that we talked about in the Roanoke video, as well as the Ojibwa, from whom we get most of our modern stories of the Wendigo.

So we're talking about that same general grouping.

The Crow, on the other hand, of whom Chief Plenty Coups was the chieftain, they're a Siouan group, so they speak a Sioux language.

They are from a different, a different Native American tribal umbrella.

Right? So it was an entire way of life.

So what Chief Plenty Coups said it- towards the end of the time in an interview that he had, was, "When the buffalo disappeared, the hearts of my people fell to the ground, and after that, nothing happened." Now, he didn't mean that nothing, no events occurred, right? There's a lot of tragedy around the North American indigenous, in fact, around the world, right?

Mm-hmm.

So I don't mean to equate that to what's happening right now, but I am learning from that.