We have all heard of this creature the “big foot” but what is this animal and does it even exist? Its other name is the Sasquatch which is derived from the Halkomelem Language and literally means wild man. The Coast Salish Indians of the Fraser Valley use this language and have been the first people historically to name the big foot. It is said that Native American Tribes all over North America have a total of sixty different terms for the big foot. It is hard to say if these sighting by Native Americans were actually credible because there tribes are so diverse it was hard to communicate with them at that time.
Typically people can agree what a Sasquatch looks like. According to a research group in Virginia, it is described to
have big feet, consists of lots of hair and is taller and stronger than the average human. Thousands of eyewitness and sightings confirm the fact that the Sasquatch if it exists is many in numbers. There are well over hundreds of footprints believed to be the footprints of a Sasquatch. Dr. Jeffery Meldrum who studies Anatomy and Anthropology is famous for carefully analyzing what people believed to be fresh footprints of Bigfoot. He traveled to the Umatilla National Forest in 1996 just outside of a city called Walla Walla. His discoveries are mentioned on a credible website called www.isu.edu. He discovered that the footprints were approximately 35 cm long and 5.25 in wide. One of the unique discovers that was made my Meldrum was the Sasquatch had the ability to bend is foot similar to a human. People started arguing that this could have been a publicity student, but then earlier in 1967 a similar discovery was made in Blue Creek Mountain Road in Northern California where over a thousand footprints were found believed to be linked to Big Foot. In April of 1982 loggers found a series of footprints again and Deputy Sheriff Hereford was one of the first responders and had confirmed the incident told by the loggers. Any logical person could confirm that no animal or creature that we have knowledge of has this huge of footprints. Rodger Patterson who had made a film of big foot after having a encounter with a huge animal that would have looked like Bigfoot, says that bigfoot slides while he walks. Patterson who claims he was 25 feet away Bigfoot said that he saw a tall muscular figure. He was riding on a horse and the horse out of fear ran the opposite direction. He was able to film the Sasquatch and published it into a movie not long after. People started accusing him and his close friend Gilman of trying to make a Hoax. Years later Gilman admitted there was a possibility of a hoax. Philip Morris a friend of Patterson said that he had sold Patterson an ape suit thinking it was going to be for a prank. It is most likely said that this was a publicity stunt done by Patterson and his friend. Even it actually happened it is most likely that Patterson exaggerated the encounter. It is said that Sasquatches are attracted to forest and woody areas. Many people say that Virginia is where many sightings have happened and people are almost certain that a creature such as Bigfoot lives here. The reason why Virginia, British Columbia and North America in general have had a lot of sightings is because there are large amounts of forest lands, hardwood forest make up 40 percent of North America’s forest. If there are Sasquatches out there we would not be appealing to them because of urbanization and development in there “homeland”. We will now explore many
The Muckleshoot are a Native American tribe are a part of the Coast Salish people. their territory can be found located in Washington. They are recognized as the Muckleshoot Tribe, they are composed of generations of different tribal groups who inherited Puget Sound areas and occupied river drainages from the rivers confluence in Auburn to their reservations in the Cascades.
The mosh is an awesome place in Downtown Jacksonville; where everyone can learn some interesting facts about our city, how the body works , what animals are in the ocean and etc. I visited the Timucua Indian exhibit; I learned a lot of intriguing information that I didn’t know before. I learned how the Timucua Indians first came about, how the Indians lived and survived during this time period. This exhibit also showed me how the Indians looked and the way they did things. Being able to learn about the Timucua Indians is so fascinating to me.
The experience happens in the middle of the night in Orick, California when the encounter of Bigfoot took place, in the house of two men and their children. The house was surrounded by the forest, woods, and there were not many people around.
legends about those wild half-human beasts who haunt the edges of our forests and lurk in the
There are many stories, both positive and negative, regarding the Bigfoot in Native American culture. How the Bigfoot were viewed varies greatly with each tribe, from a “devil” to a “keeper of the forest.” What is clear though, before the Europeans began to settle the North American continent in mass, the Bigfoot were not reclusive. They interacted with the indigenous tribes and were a known tribe or society.
Is Bigfoot really a mythical creature roaming the world? Nobody can answer that question, not if our scientist today. Bigfoot is a large, hairy, apelike creature resembling a yeti, there are found in Northwestern America. There is another name that Bigfoot is called and it’s Sasquatch. Some people believe in Bigfoot and try to find it. Others who think it’s a ridiculous idea to be searching for something that no one can find. There are others who are in the middle and others who just don’t care. There are evidence from films, eyewitnesses, photographs, hair sample, and footprints.
Bastien, B. (2011). Blackfoot ways of knowing: The worldview of the siksikaitsitapi. Calgary, Alberta: University of Calgary Press.
The theory of there being an ape like beast that walks through our wilderness all started with a 16mm film in Bluff Creek, California by Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin in 1967. The video displayed a tall, hairy human like figure trolling along a timber clearing walking briskly away from Patterson and Gimlin. The film ignited a craze amongst scientist and viewers to go on a conquest to prove Bigfoots existence. The 1967 film was never proven to be a hoax or real evidence and still today is a toss up.
This provides powerful insight into the role Bigfoot like creatures played in Native American cultures. Some tribes were not afraid of the creatures, considering them kind and helpful, while peacefully coexisting with them. Other tribes found them to be more violent and dangerous creatures. The fact that these tribes called the animals Stick Indians or Brush Indians seems to suggest that the creatures were simply other tribes they did not get along with opposed to a village of mythical creatures. Some examples of Bigfoot like creatures in Native American tribes include the Chiye – Tanka, the Lofa, the Maxemista, and the popular Sasquatch. The Chiye – Tanka was the Bigfoot like creature of the Sioux Indians (“Native American,” n.d.). This animal
In order to prove to everyone this creature is real, stories should be told in order to persuade them. The first sightings of this creature started around 1995, when a man was noticing his animals acting strange on his farm in Puerto Rico. He really didn’t understand why they were acting strange that night, although they seemed very afraid of something. The next morning he woke up to find his two goats dead, and the next couple nights he began his search for what has done it. One night he saw a creature that was the perfect description of what is known as the Chupacabra today. The name Chupacabra literally means “goat-sucker” so from that day on the search had began and is still continuing in Central America and even the US (“Unique Facts about Mexico: Chupacabra”). This is just one of the countries that have been affected by this animal and something tells me it isn’t going to be the last.
Upper Missouri River area. Eastern Sioux, 19th century. Wooden board, buckskin, porcupine quill, length 31″ (78.8 cm). Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Washington, D.C. Catalogue No. 7311
Some native words used by Cree Indians: Kiwetin meaning the north wind that brings misfortune (Gill, Sullivan 158). Another word is maskwa used for bear, the most intelligent and spiritually powerful land animal (Gill, Sullivan 182). A water lynx that holds control over lakes and rivers is called “Michi-Pichoux”; they are associated with unexplained deaths (Gill, Sullivan 189). Tipiskawipisim is used for the moon who is the sister of the sun. Once a flood destroys the first humans, Tipiskawipisim creates the first female (Gill, Sullivan 303).
Throughout the 150 year history of Bigfoot, many concerns have been raised, the most in number being from Native Americans. The Karok Indians tell of an “upslope person” who lurks far up in the mountains (Gaffron, 22-24). Some medicine men have told stories of “snow-walkers” that haunt the Forrest depths (Short). The creatures North American habitat covers over 125,000 square miles of forest, contained in the states of Oregon, Washington, and California, constituting a large number of Native American tribes to encounter and frighten (Gaffron, 22). This phenomenon is not just a Native American one told by medicine men, and tribe leaders, Bigfoot plays an enormous role in the ancient folklore of such civilizations as, the Russians, Greeks, and Anglo-Saxons (Brunvand).
Jess Blumberg, a writer and associate web producer at Smithsonian Magazine stated that the name Sioux means “little snakes” (Blumberg). This name is believed to have come from a neighboring Native American tribe that did not look to highly upon the Sioux. The Sioux way of life revolved around the Wakan Tanka, or “Great Spirit”. This Spirit included all that was majestic, sacred, or powerful. They believed that all living things had spirits, and would often thank an animal for sacrificing its life after killing it (Blumberg).
The animal is portrayed as bipedal, seven feet (2.2 meters) tall, with silver hair and yellow eyes. It is joined by a sickening odor. Impressions as far as anyone know left by the animal have four toes. The principal guaranteed locating was in 1963 by Harlan Ford, a resigned Air activity controller who took up natural life photography. After his passing in 1980, a reel of Super 8 film demonstrating