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What is a Bigfoot, or Sasquatch? |
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at the bottom of this page for categorized knowledge (anatomy,
behavior, etc.) about these animals.
Regarding the
origins of the words "sasquatch" and "bigfoot":
The
term "sasquatch" is an anglicized derivative of the word
"Sésquac", meaning "wild man". The original word, in the
Stó:lõ dialect of the Halkomelem language, is used by the
Coast Salish Indians of the Fraser Valley and parts of
Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
Indian tribes
across North America have a total of more than sixty different
terms for the sasquatch.
"Bigfoot" was a journalistic
term generated in the middle of the last century during a rash
of sightings in Northern California. The word has come to be
recognized widely.
Many different terms have been used
by pioneers and later non-native inhabitants of North America,
including "skookums" and "mountain devils".
The
description given here is derived from a compilation of
thousands of eye witness reports from the entire continent,
some of astounding length, detail, and corroborative evidence;
the Patterson movie, taken in 1967, and a recent
computer-based image analysis of it; and statistical analysis
of a large database accumulated over the last fifty years,
primarily by John Green.
W. H. Fahrenbach,
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