Thunderbird Stories from the Canadian Shield @HammersonPeters
Thunderbird Stories from the Canadian Shield  @HammersonPeters
Uploaded August 2023 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
In this video, we explore one of the oldest anthropological investigations into the Thunderbird legend in Canada - an 1890 piece by British-Canadian anthropologist called Alexander Francis Chamberlain which delves into the traditional legends of the Blackfoot of the prairies, the Cree of the northern woodlands and Canadian Shield, and the Ojibwa of the Great Lakes.

0:00:00 – ‘Thunderbird Amongst the Algonkins’
0:01:38 – The Palliser and Hind Expeditions
0:03:43 - Cree Thunderbird Legends
0:05:25 - Thunderbird in Blackfoot Tradition
0:06:25 - Kootenay Thunderbird Legend
0:06:52 - Thunderbird in Ojibwa Legend

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