My connection had nothing to do with Bigfoot. I said that had I asked he might have hand a telling answer concerning the Bigfoot question. I wasn't lumping anything into anything. Where are you getting that I'm inferring anything about all FNP? You're also discounting potential personal knowledge. Why are you trying to create a tempest in a teapot over this? But whereas I managed to spend a couple of hundred of hours of direct communication with the elder of a FNP I'll close by asking you how many hours have you've spent and under what circumstance?
FYI read this. Please in the future make sure that you know what you're talking about.
http://1stnationstribes.tribe.net/thread/ed99fc73-32a2-4a46-ba10-9c394fd72d81
The Cree call it Nabagaboo the Ojibway know it as Sasquatch
" One of our community street names is called Nabagaboo, which means Bigfoot in Cree. Bigfoot is a common legend among many diiferent ancient tribes of First Nations peoples. Each had variations to the story to reflect the own living realities. The Ojibway called them Sasquatch. Some believe that Bigfoot still roam the forests today. They say it looks like people and runs around in the woods screaming and breaking down trees. It never bothers the Native tribe though. People who have seen it looked long, tall, hairy and smelled bad. They say that he makes shelter from broken down trees to sleep at night. There have been many sightings of big foot prints in the black mud on lakeshores." by Kieffer Bunting
I spent almost a year researching and working with the Cree in Northern BC, Alberta, and Saskatchewan on their treaty and land claims. I lived on the reserve with the brother of the Grand Chief whose mother was a great healer and feared woman due to her knowledge and power.
She was alive when Treaty 8 was signed - so that would have made her at least 97 years old when I knew her.
Proving land claims is all about researching the cultural and traditional ties to the land. Speaking to elders was a huge part of the equation, obviously, and I got to know a lot of them very well.
You would be surprised at how the tales and traditions varied with the age of the "elders". There was a lot of cross-cultural contamination with obvious references to other tribal beliefs - mostly picked up from American tribes. This is directly attributable to popular media (TV, movies, and fictional books) and the American Indian Movement (A.I.M.) and their popularity during the seventies.
A.I.M. sought to unite the people by giving them an all-encompassing belief system. They also promulgated a demonstrably false lie about a past utopian lifestyle that was destroyed by the Europeans. (The old "Noble Savage" and "living in tune with nature" nonsense).
Based on the research into the cultural heritage of the Cree that I and many others have done - there is no reference to ANYTHING resembling what we know as sasquatch or Bigfoot in the Cree tribal lore. Period.
Any reference to it nowadays is political gamesmanship and/or outright bastardization of their cultural heritage by people who should know better.
You tried a weak
appeal to authority by bringing your "Cree Elder" friend into the mix.
Why was his heritage or cultural ties brought into the mix unless you were trying to impress us with the fact he was Cree and had some knowledge particular to the Cree? After all - the fact that he is of First Nations ancestry does not make him any more knowledgeable about the bush or wildlife than anybody else. Therefore, if all you were thinking about was his bushcraft - the reference to his ancestry was - and is - irrelevant.
Others have pointed out the obvious silliness of your link.
Maybe you should research the mating habits of the Ojibway women with giant beavers. After all - there is ample evidence of that legend in their tribal culture.
But a tall, hairy, flesh and blood, bi-pedal ape?
Nada. 
