Thunderbird Story: Pikangikum First Nation

Thunderbird is a real event not fiction. Purification time🔥

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

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.

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

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…!

Gichi Migwetch for your teachings Elder Matthew Strang.

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.

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

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?

thank you

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I live in Wapekeka

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

Sub2mangoraj

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