Did the Early Native Americans know about Bigfoot?

A quick look at Native Americans and their beliefs with bigfoot through their art. #bigfoot #nativeamerican

[hughjaass]

As a Native American myself, Creek Tribe, I have known of the Forest Keepers, Hairy Man, since birth. We've got history going back to the 1730s, about the hairy people.

[oliversmith]

An Elder told me that they used to come sit in the Tipis and speak through their minds. They quit doing this when mankind started warring with each other.

[MC-vely]

They can travel through dimensions. They have their own dimension but have the ability to cross over into ours. That’s why they seem to vanish into thin air, they are actually doing just that. I have learned from others that they are quite intelligent beings and are more “civilized” than you’d think. Most of the time they don’t want trouble, it’s only when they feel threatened that they react

[kiowatribegirl]

I'm kiowa/Comanche and have had a few incidents with the big hairy man, I live in Oklahoma and never thought they existed around these parts. I have heard stories about them growing up. And was told to respect our bothers.

[pacervault]

I grew up in SE Alaska, and have always been VERY intrigued with Tlingit legends, especially pertaining to the "Hairy Man in the Forest" legends found in the folklore of EVERY indigenous peoples of the world!

[markvanhelsing]

Did Native Americans know about Bigfoot/Sasquatch??? Of course they have! These creatures have been part of the lives of Native Americans since the beginning of recorded history.. Have have lived side by side for thousands of years. In Australia, stories & songs about the Yowie/Quinkin/ Bushmen, have been told & passed down through the ages..So it is without doubt that Native Americans knew about these creatures & have respected them, as they still do today...

[tarzantheapeman]

I believe that these beings are real, the Sabe' can travel between realms, their capabilities far outclass us humans, there is much that is not understood yet 👣👁

[dwoncrawford]

I'll say this: stop rejecting things because it's not considered discovered by certain groups of people. They don't have all the knowledge. If this has been happening and being seen by groups for hundreds of years then it is so.

[mattcarter]

Last year, I'd gone up to a family camp thing in the mountains, I over ate and wandered into the trees, well after throwing up I had looked up, I seen something that was big and brown, it was no bear, this thing looked cloaked, it went from one tree to the other, and then nothing

[Esther]

Been around since we have, or before. Of course they knew

[delvinlang]

You have Cave drawings about them and encounters too. Their very territorial. I even seen cave drawings of UFOs in my res. Beaming down to animals. It had saber tooth tiger in one drawings. Elk deer antelope..etc .. Anasazi drawings

[williamolivadoti]

David Cusick's 1828 woodcarvings sho w Stonish Giants capturing Native women to eat for dinner -Schoolcraft 1853

[skehleben]

Not acknowledging and respecting the native inhabitants of all places has been the fatal arrogance of colonial culture and is only now, slowly slowly being recognised. Love the presentation!

[Hunkerbunker]

I like how the ending just randomly kicks into a keyboard demo.

[adriennemarierozario]

Yes, I agree they may have come across the Siberian land bridge around the last ice age but, not as giganthopithacus, but as the hairy man of the woods they are today.

I'd seen one some years ago while going over Donner summit on the way to Reno, NV. It had whitish fur & at least 8ft tall. He looked like he was scoping the long line of cars in the snow chugging up the mountain.

[tristannez]

Yes we did… 😊. My tribe knew of lot of things but never shared.. still tell this day we don’t speak of it.

[ExitTwo]

That huge bigfoot would eat a tiger for dinner.

[tiamat]

Collective genetic memory from all races of Gigantopithecus!!

[Agui]

I have heard they a multidimensional beings that can move in and out of realities which makes them difficult to find.

[williamolivadoti]

Oral history of the, Mohawks says they chased two "Stonish Giants" into a cave 3 miles above Albany NY sealed them in the cave and burnt them alive in there.