My great grandmother was a child survivor of the wounded knee massacre. She was Oglala Lakota. This is fascinating to me, because I have had a love of bows and archery and hunting with that equipment all of my life. Very nice video!!

@baswordfish

Жыл бұрын

Did you know about this book: by laurent olivier "What happened to Wounded Knee" ? I recommanded it, f it does exist in english langage, I'm french and I read it after "Bury my heart at wounded Knee", as I'm a kind of "pro-native", I cried a lot when I read them. Us government is insane. Fake, sick and so wrong. I wish I could go back in time and protect America (all the continent) by hidding it in an another dimension :) so it could stay natural, wild and clean from invasive europeen people. I have read and seen many native movies and documentary (about AIM leaders, Indian residential school system, native's biography, abuses, stolen lands, etc). As far as I can tell, I'm not proud to be white, I feel like my heart is indian and I'm not born in the good country/century/body. I love the real indian culture (not the "kitschy" one for white people!), with a preference for Lakota people :) I feel like they where so connected to nature and so damn right about it. I really feel so sick with the actual way of life on heart, money, pollution, work, no respect for animals, no understanding, I wish humans could disappear and stop to destroy all living things on heart.

@Elijah00_

Жыл бұрын

I have a great-great-grandmother and aunt who were supposedly at wounded knee as children my aunt had to hide in the bushes at 3 years old with my grandmother as a baby the story goes

@forevertoremain

Жыл бұрын

@@Elijah00_ keep those stories alive. Pass them on and write them down ♥️

@Master...deBater

Жыл бұрын

My grandmother's great grandmother was a survivor of the Dakota uprising of 1862 in Minnesota. As a child her family had to flee their farm along the Minnesota river at night in order to take refuge in New Ulm...which was later attacked by the Dakota.

I'm full blooded Navajo. I wish you had a series on the Discovery or another channel! You are a true historian and follow the chosen path! Thank you for the best KZread channel on Native American and true historical techniques! You are what others should be! A living book of history and knowledge! Thank you! A ho! Wash de! Ah he hee!

@joegrande4848

Ай бұрын

Local powwows and find Natives at the powwow and talk to them. Learn about your people brother it's important 😊❤

Well done ! Good to see that little knife I made you get a work out on that bow, LOL :D

@PrimitiveLifeways

2 жыл бұрын

I love that knife!

@joegrande4848

Ай бұрын

Awesome guys 😊

I like your video and have always loved the history of the native Americans. My Mother was a nurse at the Pine Ridge hospital. She started in 1948. One f her patience for 6-8 months was Nickolas Black Elk. He was at the Battle of Little Bighorn.

Nice! The speed is impressive

Well done my friend. I cannot believe the power in the finished bow. I always wondered how powerful Indian bows were and I really am surprised. Great job and Thanks for the info.

Your craftsmanship, respect for the history of Native tools, and PATIENCE, are inspirig! Thank you teacher.

That bow is a real beauty. I've made many eastern woodland style self bows but have always wanted to make some of these plains styles. Your videos are inspiring me to get to it.

@PrimitiveLifeways

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Happy bow making

Found this channel today and I'm absolutely in love with this information and work, please keep it up

You’re incredible, thanks for making such detailed videos. A true inspiration

Thank you for making such a great video, I look forward to seeing more like this one in the future.

@PrimitiveLifeways

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! More to come

You have a great skill set!! I'm envious! Thank you for bringing back my old interest in making bows. Well Done!!

Much appreciated to see the details of such a fine product

Very nice work and you're very good teacher the way you explain is very interesting, thanks, im from sri lanka 🇱🇰

Wow. This was so interesting, it felt like a 10 minute video. Can't wait to try this

That is an incredible little bow. You have great skills and great patience 👍

This is a brilliant video! I couldn't quite get my head around the following a consistant single growth ring to avoid weakness, but I will have to watch again. ,-) Fascinating. Thanks

I love this video and this bow!!! Thank you for sharing and inspiring us

@PrimitiveLifeways

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Wow what an amazing bow and bow build ! Love it

@PrimitiveLifeways

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Thank you for this ... finally ready to try ... great tutorial.......

I'm on this path and grateful that I have these incredible videos to guide me, It is not Easy, but I love the challenge! Thank you!

Thanks for share the video, great work!!

Thank you for sharing your Widsom, and creating such a wonderful bow. God Bless you, and good hunting!

This is great. I was grew up watching movies and comics and learning about native americans and it's really great to see something that is connected to them.

Best video yet on bows.

Beautiful bow. Extremely well done!

Back in the sixty's I was taught to use my legs to string a bow. I'm not sure I can still do it. I've got my old bow from the sixty's or seventies (I don't remember) and my grandson Love's it. I haven't taken it out of my closet for him to see yet but he always goes to my closet and checks on it every time he spends the night. I'll probably give it to him when he's older (he's 10).

Fascinating, What a patient mans endeavor.

What a wonderful video and beautiful bow

Great job, a work of art, impressive skills, thanks

Excelent, I appreciate your precise experience

This is so cool, man... I am going to search in my region for suitable wood and make a bow as this is what I absolutely love to learn and a way to keep it old school, making these primitive weapons invigorates the soul and a sense of skill and accomplishment... thank you so very much for this class. we must learn from anyone willing to teach!

Well done.very beautiful bow.enjoyed this video alot.

@PrimitiveLifeways

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching

Nice job in explaining you method of tillering

Hoka hey! very good man. Being Nakota myself I can really appreciate this bow. I am into Turkish/Tatar bows but gotta try a bow like this

@PrimitiveLifeways

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! Happy bow making

@foxmulder7616

2 жыл бұрын

Hau kola! Dakota Lakota Nakota!

Love this bows look

Superb! Beautiful Bow.

Truly excellent , sir .... Well done .

I enjoyed this video very much,well worth the wait. Currently attempting to make a version of this design. The sinew in this design was critical considering the Lakota mainly used ash and chokecherry.

@PrimitiveLifeways

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@laurencelance586

2 жыл бұрын

The material use is very interesting. I'll have to look up the properties of both ash and chokecherry as relates to bows. My woodworking bench is ash. It's tough and hard but I have no idea how that would function for a bow.

Annnnnd subscribed. Absolutely beautiful work.

Excellent. I have seen the Osage Orange tree and read about how a fine bow made of Osage Orange wood was worth a horse with a blanket in trade. The wood is so very strong and dense. This was fun to watch. Thank you for demonstrating the firing.

Wow. Hat off and congratulations.

Awesome stuff! Thank you for this video, I just got my hands on some Osage orange staves. They are not ideal, but I will make them work.

@PrimitiveLifeways

2 жыл бұрын

Osage is a fantastic wood. Enjoy!

Awesome!!!! I'm from this tribe!

Aww man that is awesome bow Jeff

@PrimitiveLifeways

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Great vid, like your tips and technique. Glad you mentioned the file name. Working on a Yew bow now I think Osage is slightly easier to work with. Have made a couple but never a backed bow. Need sinew. 😏 Nice, it even sounds like an Am Indian bow. 😗

Beautiful bow man !👍👍👍👍👊👊👊👊👊

Nice work sir👍

great info, good job

Hello, excellent video i learned a lot I have a few questions. The dry heat i have learned makes the wood harder, better in taking compressive force but worse at elastic force, aka it becomes more brittle. Is this considered when applying heat gun to the bow? Also i am interested in the asian laminate bows with similar material, i believe is bamboo sinew and the material water buffalo horn on the belly for compressive force. Like the bow you are showing here, it shoots above its weight than a self bow. The drawback is that there is neccesary preparatory to warm up the bow, like stringing it and straightening it since it would warp. Otherwise, pulling it to some draw length and as a warm up for the laminate limbs is also necessary so it doesn't just snap. Sometimes this is done multiple days before the bow is to be used to prepare for shooting. Is this process necessary for this bow to some extent? I'm thinking perhaps to a much lesser extent because the Asian bow uses many more pieces and v splices, so it's more likely to warp. What is your view on this? What is your opinion on adding horn to the belly of this bow? I would like to learn more and possibly build a hybrid bow and would like your thoughts on this

Beautiful bow. I wonder if sinew works better on some woods. I am undecided if I should back a 1m/ 40 inch rowan bow with rawhide or should I finally try my hands on sinew backing.

@blondknight99

2 жыл бұрын

I used to make 40-45" Hickory sinew backed bows. Ofcourse the sinew prevented any from ever breaking but it never induced a reflex or maintained a double curve. And being hickory they all followed the string a bit. So Im pretty sure the performance of sinew is better on some bow woods more than others.

This was beautiful

Great video. I hope you have hunting with it videos

I live in Central Virginia what type of woods in my area would be good to try to make a bow out of. And I applaud you on a wonderful demonstration very encouraging

Thanks for the informative video. How does this type of bow compare with a Mongol reverse bow?

Thank you for showing this. I had a fiberglass long bow but the tips started to fray. My family gave me a compound bow to replace it. I don't like the compound bow. It seems to me that I had a oneness with the old bow that just isn't there with the compound bow. Does that make sense? At any rate thank you.

@stevedriscoll2539

Жыл бұрын

If you make a bow you will feel that oneness even more

Incredible vid

You Are The Man!

A true thing of Beauty!

Great video. Do you keep the stave oriented the way it grew, with the root end down and the branches end up?

Have you tried using tight bond three with your sinew soaking your Senu in a good waterproof wood glue and using it just curious

What a wonderful work you have done. 🎉

You do really wonderful detail work. I'd add just one thing though; thoughts on the tips. We tend to think as string grooves as having two angled grooves made with a small round rasp but the actual bows had larger less angled or non angled grooves that look like they were made with knives and on the upper limb usually only on one side, oriented so they could be strung and unstrung easily on horseback. A lot of them look like the upper groove on the side that would make them easier to handle if the bottom limb was pushed against the horse and the back was toward the archer when stringing, pulling the handle. The tips and how the originals were strung and unstrung on horseback may seem like a small detail but everything is important.

Nicely done very nice bow I'm very interested in getting into making some cell phones like this and some Lakota Indian bows and Cheyenne bows I shoot a renegade longbow right now . If I can get some information from you would be great thanks again man keep making them

I very much appreciate your explaining how such small bows had killing power. I am used to English longbows, which make Indian bows too small. I have a seven foot piece of Osage Orange, that has been aging in my garage for twenty years. I cut it from a thicket where it had been forced to grow tall and straight in low light, with slow growth producing fine grain. It still has the bark on, but I can tell it has a lot of small knots. I always intended to use it for at least one bow, but I have grown old and have too much arthritis to do the work, not to mention shooting a strong bow. I wish I knew a bowmaker to give it to. Michigan, USA, near Detroit.

Thank you very glad to have this information. I don’t understand what you mean by golf ball size.

@PrimitiveLifeways

2 жыл бұрын

The total shavings should equal about a golf ball sized.

It shoots very fast! Seems to hit the target right after you release!

This is very nicely done. As you were tillering the bow I wondered if there is an objective shape you are looking for at each draw length that could be drawn on a background to provide a more precise matching of the bow shape to the objective shape you are working toward? If there is, does that objective shape have a mathematical formula combining inputs such as bow length, draw length, draw weight, limb thickness, material type(s), etc.?

@makisp.1428

Жыл бұрын

I have no knowledge of bows. But being an engineer, I would very much be interested in the mathematics of it.

do you guys sell bows you make, because i would love to get my hands on a lakota bow just like the one you made since i perfer traditional bows like my mongolian horse bow

Sadly I don't really know the species of wood. Plus I'd have to watch this video a few times to fully understand how this is done. Never the less awesome video 😊❤️

i was just in sedona on a family trip! i would of loved to meet ya! i was hiking and trying to learn all the stuff used for bow making! i was happy to find some red osier dogwood ( with indian sandpaper next to it) along oak creek!!! arizona is gorgeous

@PrimitiveLifeways

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome. Let me know when you are out this way

@Soviless99

2 жыл бұрын

@@PrimitiveLifeways i will definitely. i loved sedona a lot.

Would be very interesting to see how Native Tribes made this bow without iron blade tools. They only had stone and flint tools, it's very impressive.

@jburdine1956

2 жыл бұрын

Not wanting to be argumentative but steel, and iron tools were available as early as white immigrants to the Americas. Not that stone tools were not used to make bows, but Trade good axes, knives, chisels, scrapers, and awls from European trash and trade goods. I've seen period arrow heads cut from wagon rims and curled from think sheet metal, a scraper from a ruined gun barrel among others. Indigenous peoples were quick to see the value of the materials brought by European invaders and made use of them. According to Laubin, and others the bows of native peoples were longer before the Spanish brought the horse.

@crazyhorse23

2 жыл бұрын

Awesomely said

@TheOddmartini

Жыл бұрын

I've done it with glass flint and sandstone. Process is surprisingly similar - chasing the ring by slow scraping with a flint (or glass) scraper, then roughing the belly with a heavy flint chopper. Tillering was done with a rough sandstone rasp and finishing with a glass or flint scraper. Takes about the same length of time - around 6 months went through about 6 scrapers and 4 sandstone rasps. I felt the glass scrapers were 'cheating' but so easy to make from a smashed wine or beer bottles knapped to shape.

@MrTechmoore

Жыл бұрын

@@TheOddmartini that glass would be Obsidian.

@robertstephens9194

Жыл бұрын

Flint or obsidian with sandstone to sand it down. Cooked Pine sap as glue to often times back the bows in snake skin

Amazing work Jeff. I wish I could be able to make such a great weapon for hunting. I have only made a couple of bows but since the only wood I have available where I live is lemonwood and there's not much information about that I have only made some bows that follow the string.any tips on how to treat wood so that it doesn't happen?

@PrimitiveLifeways

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. So all bows will follow the string a bit, even with sinew. Make sure the wood is plenty dry and the tiller is balanced.

@jonpatterson7211

2 жыл бұрын

Melfin, I've done a bit of research over the years, and it's my understanding that lemonwood is NOT a good choice for a bow. Not sure why, but that's the consensus I'm seeing.

Thank you for this film! Wen I was a young boy, I tried to build a Bow that way, but it broke. Now I know why. May be, I'll give a new try to it! 😊

All I can say is Wow 😮

Very nice!

Have you ever fire hardened a bow like this made of a white wood? I'm making one like this from Ash. I'm at floor tillering stage right now and debating fire hardening the belly before sinew backing. I thought the fire hardening might help retain a little more reflex once finished.

@davidmichael8105

Жыл бұрын

I have used heat treatment on ash, hickory , maple on the belly only .It helps in compression. I found the sapling bows 3to 4 inch diameter worked best. I usually like to collect the saplings in late spring and the bark peeled easier. Would clamp them up to dry. I also found that sweet gum was a wood that heat treated well and was literally unbreakable.

Loved the video! Was worth the wait. How much reflex did it hold? Also love the quiver.

@PrimitiveLifeways

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! About 4"

@Tradbow85

2 жыл бұрын

@@PrimitiveLifeways wow, great looking bow. I'm going tk copy the build on my next one.

I met indian Joe early 70s hung with him for yrs good guy taught me survival skills .I use what I've learned from to this day

Danke für diese Videos! Mich würde interessieren wie stark waren diese Bögen? Welche Durchschlagskraft hatten die Pfeile?

Hi, what kind of glue are you using for applying the snake skin? Wonderful video, thaks. Jens from Denmark

If I was to use sugar maple how would I change this design if I still want it short? Make the limbs wider possibly?

very nice bow

Nice bow!

AWESOME

Very nice

Very cool

I'm impressed at how fast that arrow went!

@makisp.1428

Жыл бұрын

Me too!! I would be interested to know how they make measurements of the capabilities of a bow.

@Daylon91

Күн бұрын

​@@makisp.1428a chronograph measures the speed

Wonderful video, I wanted to ask--what is the maximum draw length obtainable with this design?

@Daylon91

Жыл бұрын

Depends on the length of bow u could make a long version without sinew and draw it 30"

Imagine lining the belly with Buffalo horn also 😳that be a BEAST of a BOW... ,very nice and well done video thank-you.

@robertbrandywine

3 ай бұрын

I think horn bows have the horn on the back of the bow, not the belly. I'm not sure why.

SHINTO RASP! I love mine

Could you write the dimensions in the description please It'll help me understand or grasp it better

Dream Theater tattoo, nice, metal and bow shooting go well together :D

Years of saving sinew in qt jars to save from moths, learning exactly where the Osage orange in my Maryland territory, or cousin Mulberry. Black Locust works too. Dang! Thanks again. Hide glue needed…

Thank you

NICE!!!😀

There is a way to get faster bow by curving or narrowed the tips more or anything ?

that is gorgeous, you never see those in eurpoe.

I’m subscribed

How long did you let the sinew backing set?