Mysteries of the Beaver Wars [NEW 2024 Historical Mystery Documentary]

In this video, we take a look at strange tales from the bloodiest period in Canadian history - the last sixty years of the 17th Century, characterized by a series of armed conflicts between New France and the Iroquois Confederacy known collectively as the Beaver Wars.
0:00:00 - Introduction
0:02:46 - Outbreak of the Beaver Wars
0:05:09 - The Vision of Jean de Brebeuf
0:08:53 - The Ghost of Antoine Daniel
0:13:45 - Ritual Hematophagy
0:16:10 - The Miraculous Cure of Jeanne Mance
0:24:11 - The Talking Head of Jean Saint-Pere
0:26:13 - Miracles of Ste. Anne de Petit-Cap
0:29:13 - Battle of Long Sault
0:32:16 - The Haunting of Barbe Hallay
0:37:27 - The Shroud of Lemaitre
0:40:06 - The Ghosts of Point Iroquois
0:42:12 - The Charlevoix Earthquake of 1663
0:52:00 - The Carignan-Salieres
0:53:23 - Loup-Garou
0:54:22 - The Piasa Bird
0:59:07 - Vanishing of Le Griffon
1:02:45 - End of the Beaver Wars
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[@HammersonPeters]

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[@discoveringsasquatchcrypti8973]

✨Hammerson Peters , Merci Beaucoup 🙏🏼ThankYou so much for recording my families very dangerous early beginnings here in the 1600’s . I have always hoped these stories would be recorded and shared for our future generations. I am so grateful for your talent and the attention to the historical detail that you put into this film . These stories are from my family’s early beginnings in New France . We have many of these stories written in our French Genealogical Books. I heard these stories relayed to me as a child verbally. This is a historical treasure ,an account that I am so happy to share with my family today. This is the historical record. May you be Blessed for your work and sharing these treasured accounts of the incredible bravery that it took to be living in those times. 🫶 ✨🌲🦶🏿🌳🧚‍♂️🌲🐕‍🦺😊🕊️✨

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[@kittentacticalwarfare1140]

The contrast between how funny beaver wars sounds, as opposed to what happened. The savagery and slaughter never ends, it just manifests in diverse manners and environments.

[@GuroBrant]

I'm Mohawk from Kahnawake. I grew up on tales of the Beaver Wars. I never heard of the talking priest head, tho. Lol.

[@HammersonPeters]

Have you heard any stories not covered in this video?

[@GuroBrant]

@@HammersonPeters Mostly local stories of far-off campaigns. Nothing really Supernatural. Was good to hear a different perspective though. Niawen for the upload.

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[@mojo3008]

Are Mohawk and Mohican the same.

[@GuroBrant]

@@mojo3008 No. Mohawk are Iroquoian, Mohican are Algonquin.

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[@DryptosaurusDavid]

Never knew beavers would start wars.

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[@justaminute3111]

Thank you! My father never knew until late in his life that his paternal great-grandfather was a Québécois who emigrated to the US in the 1850s. I have since managed to trace that branch of family mostly back to the original immigrants in the 1600s. Most of my French Canadian ancestors were simple tenant farmers and are rarely mentioned in histories. Your presentation gives me some insight into the daily lives of the earliest of them. One of my ancestors was in the groups abducted and killed by the Iroquois in the 1660s. More interestingly for me, second one was stationed at Fort Orange with his wife and family. Because I have only the sketchiest understanding of French Canadian history, I never understood why he stayed at this distant outpost for several years after his wife died, only to relocate back to the Laurentian Valley in the early 1700s. This was always a bit inexplicable because he had some very young children at the time. However, it corresponds with the end of the Beaver Wars, now it makes sense.

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[@HammersonPeters]

Lol! Good point.

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[@Michigander269]

Great choice on spotlighting the beaver wars! Not many do.. I am a Michigander with Ojibwa heritage so I love that you make an effort to keep native American history alive. Even more so by selecting the Iroquois point massacre. I even appreciate you skipping the more "exotic" parts of the story like transforming into otters and beavers. You present it as a real human interaction with real stakes that actually existed between my ancestors and the invaders. Also 57:45 you made a, very unusual to my ears, pronunciation that sounds distinctly french. Is that really how you say the word "portaged" or was that a mistake?

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[@patrickzachary623]

This is a perspective I’ve never heard before. Really interesting to me, I'm going to look into the stories of talking heads. I have heard that the Rotinonhsíon:ni would typically use burning at the stake because the clergymen thought it would allow them to enter heaven faster or something like that.

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This is awesome. And I speak as a grizzled veteran of more than a few beaver wars.

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0:50 You might want to ask some indigenous people about the rcmp.

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anybody know what music is playing in the background?

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Which part are you referring to?

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[@batboylives]

Battle of ghost river, 100 km up the Albany River on the James Bay coast between the Mohawks and Crees. The Crees lost and were on the receiving end of the battle. There is a graveyard there at ghost river. All I know about it. My wife was from Kashechewan, ,ON on the mouth of the Albany River on the western James Bay coast. I am from the southern tip of the James bay coast, an island called Moose Factory, ON. She our two children live here in Moose Factory. In ‘Kash’ they make yearly trip to ghost river by canoe. My dad hunted there before, was .spokey he said.

[@HammersonPeters]

Very interesting! I assume there must be a ghost story associated with it, considering the name.

[@batboylives]

@@HammersonPeters yes locals in Kash got lots of stories. My dad said they camped there, just mentioned it was a spokey place.

[@doreenshuglo5876]

I really wish to learn about the Beaver war from every side. This is one really interesting video, but it is moslty the story describe by colonisers and really painted those priests as saviors(and it is biased by the priests themselves who had written those stories) I really want to know how the war was lived by all the nations inclued in that war. I know the story is told diferently nation to nation via oral tradition. It would be really interisting to ear that.

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[@HammersonPeters]

No, I haven’t.

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Hope Beaver Wars was enjoyed..next up..BUFFALO WARS

[@benwinter2420]

The French side of fights various north America from A to Z old times . . was signified by a lack of constraint as in they promoted their Indian proxies to conduct massacres against remote defenseless English Protestant settlers . . this same like of torture by the French Canadian forces in ww2 Normandy . . singled them out for special treatment by the retreating Germans

[@DemandAlphabetBeBrokenUp]

Hmmm Seems like freedom has a cost. If I had to guess & use my KZbin PhD in psychology. I'd say that living in a place. Where resources are scarce and the environment is tough. The population could be more cooperative & therefore slightly more passive.

[@ornu01]

There are few things as interesting as watching other animals going to war. Drat, this isn't about beavers going to war, then.

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Ok, Hammerson, *checkmate* ..We may be a bunch of gun loving war mongers south of the 49th and we may like to make fun of our shivering redheaded step-siblings up North and maaaybe we squabbled when we were kids... buuut God help the sorry nation that ever starts beef with our shivering redheaded step-siblings.

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[@naomiseraphina9718]

As a (partial) descendant of the Iroquois, I find it very saddening to learn of their alleged practices of torture and cannibalism, of which I confess that I was not aware until I heard about them through your channel. I hope that the gruesome tales about their cruelty were the mere inventions, or at least the exaggerations, of their white enemies. I will need to do my own research before I am satisfied that I really know the truth about my ancestors. That said, I am not accusing you of lying or misrepresenting the facts either. One ray of comfort that I derive from their allegedly fearsome behavior, even if it was truly as bad as is claimed, is the fact that, no matter how brutal and violent the Iroquois may at times have been, they were primarily fighting against the people of multiple invading empires who were taking their land by force and killing their people with bullets and smallpox. If I were defending my homeland against well-armed and implacably bigoted imperialist jackals, I too might be tempted to stoop to terror tactics in an attempt to purge such a violent alien menace from the environs occupied by my people. (I doubt that I would ever become a cannibal, but I would certainly swing a tomahawk with the best of them.) Whatever barbarism the Iroquois may have implemented in their struggle to maintain their lives and liberty, it pales when set beside the blood-soaked centuries of tragedy inflicted upon all of the indigenous peoples of this hemisphere. I can't help thinking that if all the Native Americans had put aside their differences and joined together against the invaders- if they had all fought like the Iroquois, then history would have taken a very different turn, and this world would be a very different place. Maybe a better place? Maybe. PS: I have the feeling that I may have mad a comment very similar to the one above on another of your videos featuring the Iroquois. If so, I apologize for becoming repetitious. --N

[@HammersonPeters]

I think it's safe to say that the ancestors of every person alive today belonged to cultures which practiced ritual torture and/or cannibalism. The ancestors of the French, to use an example from this video, were burning their prisoners of war alive in wicker cages by the time the Romans showed up 2,000 years ago. Blood/pain tribute seems to be a universal demand of whatever dark entities, real or imagined, our ancestors worshipped. It's not something worth worrying about, in my opinion, as we all share the same heritage in that respect.

[@Adsper2000]

I recommend the book Bonds of Alliance by Brett Rushforth. It is about the system of slavery that was practiced by the native peoples of the Great Lakes and how French Canadians adapted it. It’s primarily about the Algonquins instead of the Iroquois, but it reflects on the whole region.

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Thoroughly enjoyed this .keep up the good work

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Even though I am not Catholic I love the respect you have for the Catholic Church. Much respect.

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Thank you, and please look into it and come home. Viva Cristo Rey!

[@shadegreen5351]

Kinda of a funny opening... "If you don't count all the grief and strife in our history we don't have near as much historical grief and strife as our neighbor Nation."

[@HammersonPeters]

I could have kept going. The fur trade. Slavery. The transition to self-governance. Canadian and American history have a lot of parallels, but with the exception of the Beaver Wars, Canada’s always seems to be less intense.

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I object to the word “work”. Religious missionaries are hobbiests.

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Christ is King. Canada must return to the traditional faith of St. John de Breboif, Gabriel Lalemant, Noel Chabenel, and Charles Garnier.

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Or?

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Christ is King my brother, as Hispanic Catholic every day more devoted to the faith let us pray God enlightens all the misguided christians to re-embrace the principles of the true faith. Not so much for the allegiance to any institution but to the perfection of thought and sentiment of the Latin Theology and Philosophy.

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Christ is Mars closer before . . but please continue

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Adrenochrome

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[@mojo3008]

And people wonder why many of the tribes of native Americans had to be conquered. Many of these tribe made it worse for the peaceful ones.

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Hey now, canadas working hard to up their numbers with their recent genocidal count.

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Canada wasn’t a country in 1812…

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Not going to get to the point, ok, I'm out.

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I was taught by Jesuits in high school.They certainly enjoyed inflicting a lot of pain on students.They should have been charged with assault and battery.They would today.

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