Native American Teachings Regarding Sasquatch as Land and Forest Caretakers

Have you ever hugged a tree?
Have you ever said to a flower "You are beautiful I love you.!"?
It sounds like silly at first but trees and flowers are living things.
To me living things mean love; Love is caring, and concern for others, as the joy of life.

Love is a feeling of oneness with all living things. Everything on this earth is related to Everything else.

The tree is related to the ground. The ground is related to the grass. Some animals need grass to live.

The Bigfoot people are the spiritual keepers of Mother Earth.

The Great Lakes Woodland Indians wrote a book for Indian students for learning and understanding their own culture. The information itself was gathered from Native American Elders on reservations in Northern Wisconsin and Minnesota and published as "The Mishomis Book" by Edward Benton-Banai. The material in story form is was given as fact, not as folklore.

The story gives the reader the Indian perspective on Bigfoot and life.

Here are selections from this book.

Bug-way -jinini or wildman or Sasquatch or Yeti that communicate telepathically with Indians talk:

"The creator send me here to guide and care for those who become lost. I am Herr to watch over those who go into the forests swamps, hills and mountains to gather medicine and other things.

If those who seek medicine roots, bark and berries will ask me in a good way, if their thoughts are good, and their concern for others, I  them to find the medicines they seek. I shall know their thoughts.

Also, I help those who choose to meditate and pray and fast in the bug way ji meaning wild and natural places.

I am a natural man. I am to be different one different in all ways.

I am the caretaker of all these places, the deep forests swamps,  mountains and deep valleys.

I shall not build a home or gather in towns. Nor I shall assemble my kind in tribes or nations. I will make no trails. Nor will I build canoes.

I am to be alone in the quiet solitude and majesty of the natural world of the Creator.

I shall know the man's presence and I shall know his thoughts, but only Anishinabe will know me.

Little brother, I have watched your journey and have known your thoughts. I will tell you some things.

First, you should always treat the natural creation with respect. When you must come through my territory honour those places with tobacco and good thoughts. Be not in fear.

The Mountains,  glaciers, waterfalls, the deepest swamps or the wildest places should never be changed, diverted or disturbed. They are to remain as they are now just as I am to remain in my natural way.

As you walk on your journey, remember that there is a purpose to all things. There is a reason for the gentle rain and gentle winds as well as their opposites.

Accept these things as I give you. The evidence is all around you.

In 1854 Chief Seattle gave a presentation to a group of white men who keep insisting to sell them the Indian land.

"We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the next for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs.

The earth is not his brother, but his enemy and when he has conquered it, he moves on.

He lives his fathers' Grave behind and he does not care. He kidnaps the Earth from his children, he does not care. His father's Graves and his children's birthright are forgotten.

He treats his mother Earth and his brother Sky as things to be bought, plundered, and sold like sheep or bright beads.

His appetite will devour the earth and leave behind only a desert.

The air is precious to the red man for all things share the same breath- the beast, the tree the man they all share the same breath.

The white man does not seem to notice the air he breathes. But if we sell our land you must remember that the air is precious to us, that the air shares its spirit with all life it supports.

The wind that gave our grandfather his first breath also receives his last sight. And the wind must also give our children the spirit of life.

You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of our Grandfather so that they will respect the land.

Teach your children that the Earth is our mother. If men spit upon the ground they spit upon themselves.
The earth dies not to belong to man. Man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood which unites one family.

Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it.

One thing we know our God is the same. His compassion is equal. for the red man and the white. The Earth is precious to him and to harm the Earth is to heap contempt on its Creator. The white too shall pass perhaps sooner than all other tribes.

Continue to contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your waste.

From the book

"The Psychic Sasquatch and their UFO " by Jack Kewaunee Lapseritis