Great Medicine and Bigfoot

There is an epic tale within the Cheyenne Indian culture. It tells the story of the creation of their people and their early history. It combines many tales and stories into one epic.

It can be read in its entirety here: http://pyramidmesa.com/chey10.htm
However for the purpose of this blog I will highlight the Bigfooty parts.

"The Great Spirit created three kinds of human beings: first, those who had hair all over their bodies; second, white men who had hair all over their heads and faces and on their legs; third, red men who had very long hair on their heads only. The hairy people were strong and active. The white people with the long beards were in a class with the wolf, for both were the trickiest and most cunning creatures in that beautiful world. The red people were good runners, agile and swift, whom the Great Medicine taught to catch and eat fish at a time when none of the other people knew about eating meat".

- - Very interesting that in this epic neither the hairy men nor white men knew of catching and eating fish.

"After a while the hairy people left the north country and went south, where all the land was barren. Then the red people prepared to follow the hairy people into the south. Before they left the beautiful land, however, the Great Medicine called them together. On this occasion, the first time the red people had all assembled in one place, the Great Medicine blessed them and gave them some medicine spirit to awaken their dormant minds. From that time on they seemed to possess intelligence and know what to do".

- - This section appears to indicate that the Great Medicine gave the red man intelligence that he did not give the hairy man, suggesting the hairy man stayed more primitive.

"The hairy people remained naked, but the red people clothed themselves because the Great Medicine had told them to. When the red men arrived in the south, they found that the hairy men had scattered and made homes inside of hills and in caves high up in the mountains. They seldom saw the hairy men, for the hairy ones were afraid and went inside their caves when the red men came. The hairy people had pottery and flint tools like those of the red men, and in the caves they slept on beds made out of leaves and skins". .."For some reason they decreased in numbers until they finally disappeared entirely, and today the red men cannot tell what became of them".

-- Although the hairy people disappeared completely they were smart enough to make tools and pottery.

This can of course be taken several ways:

• Bigfoot
• Neanderthal
• Just a story

Despite many tales of Bigfoot in Native American culture this appears to be a case of very primitive man. While there is scientific evidence of tools and pottery in early humans it is not the case with Bigfoot even now in modern times.