The Writing is on the Walls
A Long long time ago in this very country...
There was a population of Native Americans. Before we arrived, took their land and killed their people. They believed in many omens and spirits.
A lot of our land now was their sacred land. They left many paintings on cave walls and rocks. And a litany of oral history of their tribes and a few may even be about our beloved Bigfoot.
So in honor of the Thanksgiving holiday this year, instead of celebrating a relationship we now know didn't end so well, I decided to honor them and talk about their connection to the big guy himself.
Bigfoot went by many names to the native Americans. Different tribes all had different names for him. One such one is Chiye-Tanka, which basically means big man. The Salish tribe gave him his most infamous name of Sasquatch(sæsq'ec). Now he is usually just referred to these days as the big man.
Their belief of Sasquatch is a lot like ours of the Mothman. They believe he appears at troubled times. He doesn’t have special powers, but he does have one foot in human and animal worlds. So they consider him more in tune, if you will, to nature and certain things. The Indians considered him friend not foe.
He is considered a guide and keeper of the forest. Moving as if there are no trees. I’m not going to lie, I was hoping my forest guide looked more like Harrison Ford than Captain Caveman, but if I’m ever lost in the forest I’ll take whatever I can get.
And Like with us now, there is no physical evidence of the big man. But you can hardly blame them for hiding and blending in with their environments. Look what happened to the Indian tribes of old when they stepped out to greet us. Can Sasquatch expect any better treatment? And now, as the familiar story goes, we are slowly stealing all of Bigfoot’s land. So all the big man has to do is look at history and how we treated the native people of this land to know what their welcome would be. They don’t need eyes to see the writing on the wall..
For more information on Sasquatch and native American folklore I recommend reading:
Tribal Bigfoot
There was a population of Native Americans. Before we arrived, took their land and killed their people. They believed in many omens and spirits.
A lot of our land now was their sacred land. They left many paintings on cave walls and rocks. And a litany of oral history of their tribes and a few may even be about our beloved Bigfoot.
So in honor of the Thanksgiving holiday this year, instead of celebrating a relationship we now know didn't end so well, I decided to honor them and talk about their connection to the big guy himself.
Bigfoot went by many names to the native Americans. Different tribes all had different names for him. One such one is Chiye-Tanka, which basically means big man. The Salish tribe gave him his most infamous name of Sasquatch(sæsq'ec). Now he is usually just referred to these days as the big man.
Their belief of Sasquatch is a lot like ours of the Mothman. They believe he appears at troubled times. He doesn’t have special powers, but he does have one foot in human and animal worlds. So they consider him more in tune, if you will, to nature and certain things. The Indians considered him friend not foe.
He is considered a guide and keeper of the forest. Moving as if there are no trees. I’m not going to lie, I was hoping my forest guide looked more like Harrison Ford than Captain Caveman, but if I’m ever lost in the forest I’ll take whatever I can get.
And Like with us now, there is no physical evidence of the big man. But you can hardly blame them for hiding and blending in with their environments. Look what happened to the Indian tribes of old when they stepped out to greet us. Can Sasquatch expect any better treatment? And now, as the familiar story goes, we are slowly stealing all of Bigfoot’s land. So all the big man has to do is look at history and how we treated the native people of this land to know what their welcome would be. They don’t need eyes to see the writing on the wall..
For more information on Sasquatch and native American folklore I recommend reading:
Tribal Bigfoot
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