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Native American myths/traditions support Bigfoot? A critical look.

EHocking said:
Notice the only thing we have is footers misrepresenting and deliberately misinterpreting stories...thus the point of this thread.
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Which was my point: if First Nation legends actually represented bigfoot, we'd long ago have a bigfoot, or at least representive bigfoot parts.

No, we'd have bigfeets, lots of them.
 
Agreed. And your point is further evidenced in the Tapir discussion over on other threads.

Here are the crypto"zoologists" declaring, "See, large mammals are being discovered all the time! Proof of bigfoot!!", while missing the point that the local South Americans had been hunting and eating the animal for centuries .... and had skins, skulls and descriptions of the animal. Probably stories as well, as I believe that many SA tribes' beliefs/religions are based in animalism.
 
Jerry Wayne nice post.

Is the one that is supposed to be a Bigfoot carving cropped?
Is it missing the neck in the photos?
If the neck came in at a angle posterior to the orientation of the head then it is a slam dunk Bighorn sheep.
 
The Russians were here long before the whalers, and had extensive direct trade with the SE Alaska natives in the 1700's. More kudos to jerrywayne and to Kitikaze for all his work in this thread.

Rockinkt has a good point and the astonishing extent of the monetary system based on Dentalia shells (wampum) is a good example of how far knowledge would have traveled in pre-European contact.

This mask is missing a number of prominent features in monkeys such as the brow and ears. The nose is the wrong proportion.
 
Drewbot said:
Jerry Wayne nice post.

Is the one that is supposed to be a Bigfoot carving cropped?
Is it missing the neck in the photos?
If the neck came in at a angle posterior to the orientation of the head then it is a slam dunk Bighorn sheep.
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Thanks.

As far as I know the picture is not cropped. The stone head had no neck and this apparently gave Sprague license to orient the figure in a way to give it a "flat face" (in other words, to give it a Bigfoot look.) The museum had oriented its display as a mountain sheep.

Thanks too, Alaska.
 
Drewbot said:
Is there a mythical creature called small foot? Because Indian myths say there should be.

http://www.native-languages.org/little-people.htm
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I pushed this subject on the BFF ver 1 several years ago. I found a cross tribal study of NA legends the statement was something like "every NA tribe has little people stories."

Along with that, we also have skeletons, sitings, old newspaper accounts...more evidence than Bigfoot!

http://www.legendsofamerica.com/wy-littlepeople.html

http://moundbuilder.blogspot.com/2014/03/ancient-graveyard-of-3-foot-pygmy-race.html

The subject was totally ignored by the loyal footers.
 
Conversation with an educated Klamath Native American concerning Sasquatch

He said the horror tales about Bigfoot were entirely made up stories to keep young Native Americans from settling near Mount Saint Helens. No truth to the stories at all. White men brought their wild men in the woods over from Europe and merely embellished the story.
 
It certainly seems to be the case to me that Bigfoot enthusiasts have taken any Native American (or indeed, any worldwide aboriginal) legend of a bipedal figure that lives or lurks in the woods, even if the figure is explicitly described as just a man, or some type of spirit or ghost rather than a physical creature, and unilaterally declared that every one must be a reference to Bigfoot.

Without exception, so far as I've seen, beyond whether the character lives in the woods or is described as "wild" and/or hairy, Bigfooters are altogether uninterested in the specific lore of these disparate cultural figures. Is it kind and helpful to humans, or does it hunt and eat them if they stray too far from the village at night? Was it sent by the gods to torment humans, or was it a specific, otherwise-normal person who was banished from civilization for some transgression and is now condemned to live as a "wild man"? None of this is important or even relevant; it's obviously all just silly stories the ignorant natives have made up to explain the animal's presence. All that matters is that the legend exists, which proves the creature is real and is definitely the selfsame creature that all of the other vastly different cultural legends around the world are referring to: namely, the Pacific-Northwest Bigfoot/Sasquatch as conceived of by American Bigfoot enthusiasts.
 
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