Mammoth Legends from Canada

Since at least the days of Victorian paleontology, the Western mind has accepted the fact that the mammoth was contemporaneous with our caveman ancestors. Although most paleontologists believe that the last of those prehistoric pachyderms died near the end of the last ice age, a surprising number of native legends suggest that woolly mammoths survived in the Canadian wilderness well into the 19th Century, and perhaps beyond. In this video, we explore these traditional First Nations stories about living mammoths in Canada.

0:00:00 - Introduction
0:02:09 - A Relic of the Pliocene
0:06:27 - Mammoth Carcasses in the North
0:10:15 - The Mammoth in Dene Folklore
0:17:50 - Mammoths in the Arctic
0:20:30 - Cola F. Fowler’s Account
0:23:44 - Mammoth in the Stikine Valley
0:25:26 - David Thompson’s Discovery
0:28:49 - Alexander Ross’s Account
0:30:54 - Charlevoix’s Great Moose
0:34:16 - A Naskapi Legend

Executive Producer: Dan Chomistek
http://www.ChomistekFilms.com

Mammoth photos and artwork courtesy of J.R. at the Great Canadian Camouflage Company.
https://www.CanadianCamouflage.com/

Artwork by Emily Houghton
https://www.Instagram.com/Em_Houghton_Art/

Nahanni footage courtesy of ‘Secrets of Nahanni’
http://SecretsOfNahanni.com/

Toad River Hot Springs photos found at:
https://HotSpringsofBC.ca/Toad-River-Hot-Springs/

Labrador footage courtesy of Justin Barbour
https://www.youtube.com/@JustinBarbournlexplorer

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