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Finley, Little Blaze and the Blackfoot Tribe

September 08, 2021 Anne Marie Cannon
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Finley, Little Blaze and the Blackfoot Tribe
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In this episode Anne Marie is doing something a little bit different. You may recall that she  interviewed her great nephew Finley for Armchair Historian's New Year’s 2021 episode. If you haven’t done so we highly recommend listening to that episode (it’s one of our favorites) Well Finley and Anne Marie talked about a lot of things, some of which did not make into the final cut. In this installment of Armchair Historians we share one of the sidebar conversations they had from that interview about Finley’s favorite history in the form of a mini episode. 

One of the reasons we love to interview kids about history is the very unique way in which they relate to the historical characters and events. Who does the child cast as the hero and who does he cast as the villain? We believe the way we view the world and ourselves are evident in the way we tell the story of our history, children are no exception.

Resources for Blackfoot Tribe

Blackfeet Nation Website: https://blackfeetnation.com
Blackfoot Confederacy Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackfoot_Confederacy
Little Blaze: This is all I could find on Little Blaze: https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/5444896

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Anne Marie Cannon:

Hello, my name is Anne Marie Cannon and I'm the host of armchair historians. What's your favorite history? Each episode begins with this one question. Our guests come from all walks of life. YouTube celebrities, comedians, historians, even neighbors from the small mountain community that I live in. There are people who love history and get really excited about a particular time, place, or person from our distance or not so distant past. The jumping off point is the place where they became curious that entered the rabbit hole into discovery. Fueled by an unrelenting need to know more, we look at history through the filter of other people's eyes. armchair historians is a Belgian rabbit production. Stay up to date with us through Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Wherever you listen to your podcast, that is where you'll find us. I'm chair historians as an independent, commercial free podcast. If you'd like to support the show and keep it ad free, you can buy us a cup of coffee through coffee, or you can become a patron through Patreon links to both in the Episode Notes. Hello, fellow armchair historians. In this episode, I'm doing something a little bit different. You may recall that I interviewed my great nephew Finley for our new year's 2021 episode. If you haven't done so I highly recommend listening to that episode. It's one of my favorites. Well, Finley and I talked about a lot of things, some of which did not make it into the final cut in this installment of armchair historians. I share one of the sidebar conversations we had about finlays favorite history in the form of a minisode. So one of the reasons I love to interview kids about history is a very unique way in which they relate to the historical characters and events. Who does a child cast as a hero? And who does he cast as a villain? I believe the way we view the world and ourselves our evidence and the way we tell the stories of our history. Children are no exception. So the floor is yours. Tell me.

Finley:

So in Blackfoot Indian tribe, one of the Chiefs names was little boys. Why his name his little boys is because he was little earlier than some of the other people in his tribe. And he was one of the chiefs of his village. I don't I don't know why he was called Blaze. Okay. There's something I think I know why. Like that's what his parents named him. Blaze. And is what the tribe named him.

Anne Marie Cannon:

Okay, so what do we need to know about little blades? Why should we care about him?

Finley:

I don't really know because I just found that I wanted to wait. Tell history about him. And okay, how he died. It's really sad. So you know how there's lots of fights. There was that one fight against the people that were trying to fight for their home their name? kins and the people that were moving in, in to, to build houses, they teared. They are village and then Lou waves had to lead his tribe lead his tribe to another place.

Anne Marie Cannon:

Sounds like what you're saying it was in the 1800s. That Yeah, Native Americans had like you live in in your house. Like you're living in your house. You're like, well, I love my dogs are outside. This is what I do every day. And then it's like these people came and they started building another house on your property, right?

Finley:

Yeah. It's basically like that.

Anne Marie Cannon:

So what you're saying is that the Blackfoot tribe was forced off of their land and little blaze had to take the lead. He was he became the leader and he had to lead them to another place. Yeah.

Finley:

How he died was a bone arrow shot in his heart. Yeah.

Anne Marie Cannon:

That's really sad.

Finley:

You want me to tell you about that. People that took that land. So that land was where was black Dad, where where was Montana? It was in Montana.

Anne Marie Cannon:

Okay.

Finley:

It was in northern Montana, that the drive, or the village was in northern Montana.

Anne Marie Cannon:

So that man who took the land from them, what about him?

Finley:

He was really mean. Like, really mean, even to his, like people. And he really, he just like wanted to take every like he wanted the whole land to be his This is awesome, but there's no black Indians that are alive.

Anne Marie Cannon:

Really? Do you know any of them? Have you met them at all? Or

Finley:

I think I only know well ways.

Anne Marie Cannon:

So if you've been studying Native American culture, is that what you've been doing?

Finley:

Yeah. But this is one thing that's a little scary when you're when I'm in London dies on after the fight. When a lightning bolt strikes, they make a fire and then and then they put the Indian over, that died. And in the sink, they go around the fire pit and sing a song is with it. This is this whole song. Um, but they just say this word over and over again. They they say hey, oh, they say al. All the way around the whole campfire.

Anne Marie Cannon:

Can you sing it?

Finley:

I basically just some song. It goes like this. A yo. ay. ay. Ay Oh, ale. With drums. Like l l like that. That's basically they say a bunch of times. Yeah, and there's drums actually that are playing out side of the thing.

Anne Marie Cannon:

I did not really know the details of that story and talking to you about it makes me want to go learn more about it. Thank you. I did want to ask you why does this history matter to you?

Finley:

One day I just like want wanted to look it up right when I woke up. I just like, got on my computer and looked up Blackfoot Indian tribe. And I found him and then I just start learning about stuff.

Anne Marie Cannon:

And then you went down the rabbit hole and you just wanted to know more because you were curious. I love that.

Finley:

I am still a lot curious there's I don't even know the names of their food yet.

Anne Marie Cannon:

Wow. So there's a lot more there's a lot more to research on.

Finley:

Maybe maybe I would be able to print out like, like how they talk. Like

Anne Marie Cannon:

Wait, you could learn the Blackfoot language?

Finley:

Yeah, I want language because if I do walk foot, I'm like how they speak um, then then if I ever see one, then I could like, say hello and Blackfoot Indian way.

Anne Marie Cannon:

I want to ask you a favor. So it sounds like you're going to keep researching this and learning more about it. Would you come back on the show and share your research with us? When you learn more?

Finley:

I will have their word and piece of paper and I can I could tell you some of the Blackfoot Indian words. Yeah.

Anne Marie Cannon:

All right, buddy. Okay, bye bye.

Finley:

Bye.

Anne Marie Cannon:

There you have it. My great nephew Finley telling us a story of little blaze in the Blackfoot tribe. Be sure to check out our episode notes for more information. Also, another way that you can support the show is by leaving us a review on Apple podcasts. definitely follow us on social media, including Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter and all the little things that you do on social media like subscribe, and follow Leave a comment. It all helps. Thanks for listening. Have a great week.