Redskins momentum: Senators, fans greet family of franchise icon, Blackfeet chief White Calf, on Ca

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00][music] >> All right, we're here with the White Calf We're here with the White Calf family from Blackfeet Nation. Thomas, we got Delphine, uh the younger sister, and and Shawn. It's our mother. I know. I know.

[00:00:20]>> [laughter] >> Yeah, this is our first time in DC.

[00:00:23]The last time a White Calf representing was here was our great great our great grandfather, Chief White Calf. Okay.

[00:00:30]That was in 1934.

[00:00:32]>> here, right? The advocate for the Yeah, he died here. My my logo The man straight freaking dead center in the logo was John Two Guns White Calf. A lot of history rich history behind him.

[00:00:43]He was never He was never able to or brought to the table to explain that history to the to the fans, the public, the organization, whoever. We'll eventually get our time. We'll eventually get the opportunity to at the same I get the first news speak with Danes. Okay. Okay. Go Montana Montana Senator.

[00:01:01]>> Senator Montana. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:01:03]Oh, with the Graham, too. And what did they say to you? They We We I got to explain a lot of the a lot of the history briefly, but they were so in awe. They just They They kind of advised me. They said, "That is great history.

[00:01:15]You keep telling the story." Yeah.

[00:01:16]That's how you see things in person.

[00:01:18]We're here to pick up that legacy to tell the history of John Two Guns White Calf, our grandfather great grandfather, Chief White Calf, along with our great uncle, the late Chief Earl Old Person.

[00:01:27]We're all out here for the the Blackfeet tribe. They made frequent frequent trips to DC on a lot of different occasions and everything like that to actually protect our treaty rights. The perfect timing is now. All working out great.

[00:01:39]This is perfect. This is You know, what time could it be better than now? We had We had people speaking for the family that weren't actual descendants, didn't know the history. They That kind of rubbed Of course. Of course. the wrong way, but we're we're actually here to correct all that. All right, what you heard earlier before with the White Calf. Why didn't that happen?

[00:01:58]>> to some people were like like why so late? Right now, like we were never given the opportunity to sit down and And the ones that were supposed to be bringing us down here kind of had bad feelings cuz they thought that we were going to steal their limelight.

[00:02:11]>> do you want the Redskins to come back?

[00:02:13]Do you You do? Yeah, all of us. We all want the Redskins back. You do? Yeah. Yeah. We want the Redskins back.

[00:02:21]Yes, there's there's actually no problem. [music] There's no issue.

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