Posted by Weird Weekend North
Tuesday, January 08, 2019
James Newton
Bigfoot on historical and contemporary Native American culture
The Sasquatch in Native American Tradition ?Bigfoot? may well have appeared to most of the world with the Patterson-Gimlin footage of 1967; but researchers found numerous references to ?gorillas? and ?wildmen? from the days of the first European landings in North America.
But, far, far older than that is the association between the Native Americans and their large, hairy neighbours. Virtually every Native American nation had it?s own name for these beings.
For some they were just another part of the native fauna, to others they held a much more ingrained role in folklore, religion, history and identity.
James Newton is an unashamed ?armchair cryptozoologist? with an interest in both cryptozoology and Native American history & culture that extends back over 40 years.
In 2006 James spent several months working with children on a Lakota reservation in South Dakota, USA, and from them, and their parents and grandparents gained a very interesting insight into just one Native nation perspective.
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