Thunderbird Story: Pikangikum First Nation

Thunderbird, Pikangikum, First Nation

[@yugandali]

That's a wonderful story, and thanks for taking us to see the nests. But to be honest, if I met a thunderbird, I would not wish to see if it could fry me :) Greetings from galang Tayal, indigenous territory in Taiwan. Lokah ta kwarah.

[@lauranicholls9421]

Thunderbird is a real event not fiction. Purification time🔥

[@GAUROCH2]

glacier deposits? high in a ridge…? an Harrier plane…?There isn't greater blind then the one who does not want to see...!I'm a wasishu, but for me the mighty Thunderbirds are as real as the Elders tell they are!I do respect them and fear them at the same time… My wife always argue with me when there is a thunderstorm and I like to go out…I was never hurt, but never provoked the Thunderbird, and always give thanks for the rain and the purified air…I thank oncle Tom and all the Elders for sharing… we are all relations…!

[@sheri65]

It's nice to hear that man speaking Ojibway, I'd like to hear more of him speaking

[@yugandali]

I love to hear people speaking their languages.

[@KuramiRocket]

This is such a great video!! I know Thunderbirds tend to be classified as cryptids, but that isn't right since this is an important indigenous belief. With that said, I remember once as a kid I was playing outside. I looked overhead and I swear I saw a huge brown bird. Kinda looked like a hawk. Except it flew real close over my house at the time and to me it looked as big as a small plane. I was living in LA at the time. Maybe I was imagining it or hallucinating, but that always stayed with me. Idk if what I saw was real or not

[@thunderstick73]

@El Arqui not may have..they are, but not in the western way of scientific real...they are real but u cannot fathom them and put them ina zoo

[@z97]

Gichi Migwetch for your teachings Elder Matthew Strang.

[@keeelane]

interestingly, i'm a finn and we also tell stories about thunderbirds...well, literally they are translated as 'firebird' but they look similar. our most sacred animal was the bear, tho...and also the elk and the moose. your nature looks very very similar to what we have here - finland is a small country between sweden and russia.

[@z97]

Are you speaking of the Sami people?

[@bongobongo985]

Thank you.

[@cosmicman621]

...Man Changing into Thunderbird. -Norval Morrisseau -

[@kithekennaz]

From the hill country of Texas, there are also stories of Thunderbirds. Every few years someone turns up claiming to have seen one. I started carving a new art piece that i plan to have featuring a thunderbird, so I googled 'thunderbird legeng' and found your video to be the only one useful without a lot more detail in my search. Awesome video by the way :) I wonder if you might have a recommendation as to a website I might be able to find more stories of thunderbirds, or any other native legends?

[@jamesharen8607]

I don't have a particular site to reference but you should check out stories from the rash of sitings in the mid 70's in Texas and illonis...there's a great one about a 9 year old boy in texarkana that was grabbed and carried through the air by one in front of 70 wittnesses in a trailer park..should be impossible he was 80+ pounds..still has the scars on his shoulders from the tallons...the best viedo evidence was caught by a Cherokee Indian in Illinois in 75 I believe...not alot of scale for size but very good images and clearly extremly large and an most ornithologist agree likely an unknown species...some believe they might be what Audubon described as Washington's eagle...he actualy killed and drew one..claims a 10-12 ft wingspan and twice the size of a bald eagle..is the only person to ever describe one...also a fascinating story from just about 8-10 years ago in Alaska where a man saw a huge bird predate a woman from off the top of a small mountain..she went up infront of a bunch of people, crested the hill then never came dowm..the guy is a piolit and later filmed what he says is the same bird he believes..also an incredibly interesting story of a Mexican family who killed and ate one in the 1960's that had a 25 ft. Wingspan..all 10 members of the family have the same story..he even buried the carcus..iv'e allways wanted to go there and dig where he buried it to see what could be found..you'd think someone would have but it's a little known story but very credinle

[@bongobongo985]

Seems like his Thunderbird Story is very incomplete from the years and years of passing down. Still very cool. I wonder what kind of information was lost. I bet it would astound us.

[@NeyooxetuseiDreamer]

thank you

[@terrilearn5837]

I’m terrified of thunderstormsWhen I heard about the Thunderbird story it’s very interesting

[@colinreed2558]

Too bad Pikangikum does not produce videos in the Ojibwe langauge only. It would be beautiful to hear these speak only Ojibwe. Ambegish Anishinaabemowaad eta ingi Anishinaabeg.

[@yodaleiheehu3280]

according to the collective description of thunderbirds through the indigenous they sound like they are aircraft. aircraft yet slightly more advanced than our most modern. i've worked with harriers for a handful of years and they sound like what is described as thunder birds.

[@mattkisewatizidatidah6888]

Not at all

[@wpriddy]

So what you are saying is that your ancestors were so dumb, that they conflate the flapping of a large birds wings with thunder. Two things that sound nothing alike. And how do you reconcile the stories and models of flying craft from civilizations all over the world? Chances are that your ancestors saw something they did not understand, and built a mythology to fit it. Only one thing flies and sounds like thunder, and it's not a bird.

[@yodaleiheehu3280]

@@wpriddy no, what you described aligns with what i was trying to say

[@wpriddy]

@@yodaleiheehu3280 i dont use the app and the web interface on my phone doesnt allow the tagging of others. i know it looks like it was directed at you, but it was not. we agree entirely.

[@wpriddy]

Most of the story is obviously fictitious mythology. My question is where the story of a bird that sounds like thunder when it flies came from.

[@JRLBoyce]

I live in Wapekeka

[@missourimongoose8858]

If anyone would like to see a shrine to the thunderbirds mortal enemy I made a video showing a mississippian shrine to the underwater panther (horned serpant in some tribes) that's around my families land on my channel, its a unknown site with paintings and 2 caves

[@normdickson2438]

I no of a place

[@manrajbasaintyyearu6630]

Sub2mangoraj

[@nadinestr5028]

Thunderbird nest = ancient glacier deposit: round stones were created by grinding ice and rivers inside the ice age glaciation, then left in these formations: Eddy Q from Pikangikum

[@bongobongo985]

They must have been huge.