Thumbnail art by Ettore Mazza
Original music by Ryan Probert (   / @probecomposer  ) and featuring Naomi Sullivan on Saxophone

I want to apologize for some of the mispronunciations in my video.

Spreadsheet Link:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

Original 1929 Magazine Sasquatch Article (pg. 6):
https://archive.org/details/Macleans...

I do want to clarify that the beliefs held by the Yokuts that I present in this video are little simplified. After several conversations with the representative, they further explained to me that the Yokuts believe that the Hairy Man is a tribe of people, a tribe of spiritual people that can walk in both worlds: in the spirit and in fleshandblood. They are endowed with the abilities to transform, speak, and heal. The Yokuts explicitly do NOT believe them to be apelike/Sasquatchlike creatures. The interpretation of the Hairy Man held by Bigfooters is simply incorrect and does not reflect the actual beliefs of the Yokuts.

Chapters:
0:00:00 Introduction
0:08:49 Assembling a List
0:14:13 THE SPREADSHEET
0:16:47 My Findings
0:21:16 the Other 89%
0:22:11 Chimeras
0:24:48 Spirits
0:26:50 Giants
0:30:15 Dwarves
0:31:31 "Wild Indians"
0:40:00 The Origins of Sasquatch
0:47:08 Basket Women
0:51:43 Summary of the 89%
0:55:21 The Hairy Man
1:03:05 Well, Actually...
1:12:59 Conclusion

Correction:
0:48:17 take note of her skirt/dress

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Special thanks to:
Miles Greb
Ryan Probert
Ettore Mazza
American Museum of Natural History
And the kind people of the Tule River Tribe