Stealing Acorn Meal from Yokut’s First Nation Woman [Bigfoot Legends & Stories]

Editor’s Note: This is a post by Bigfoot Evidence contributor, Damian Bravo, a Sasquatch believer. You can join Damian's group Sasquatch Lives? on Facebook and the group's official page at www.sasquatchlives.com.

The Legend of Bigfoot told and passed down by First Nation Indians; vary from tribe to tribe in North America. Another interesting story told by the First Nation Yokut’s tribe, tells of how Bigfoots learned exactly when to steal certain types of foods from the tribe. The Yokut’s tribes are Native Americans whose reservation is found in central California. Prior to the conquest by Europeans in North America, the Yokut’s lived in large numbers and had up to 60 separate tribes speaking one language-- “Yokuts" in their language means "People”. The tribe has divided in modern times into 3 groups: The Foothill Yokuts, Northern Valley Yokuts and Southern Valley Yokuts.

The particular story tells the lessons learned and passed down through generations by the woman of the tribe. It details on what to do when grinding acorns on the rocks near the river. Below is an excerpt of the story which describes a possible behavior of Bigfoot and its interactions with the Yokuts’ tribe women. The story was taken from the Kathy Moskowitz' presentation at the International Bigfoot Symposium, September 12-14, 2003, in Willow Creek, California.

FOOD STEALING

In the old days, women learned never to leave their acorn meal unattended. They would spend all day pounding on the big rocks near the river, making the acorn meal, and then take it down to the river to leech it. They would then leave it in the sun to dry, but they would come back and it would be gone. They would find big footprints in the sand where they left the meal and they would know that Hairy Man took it. He likes Indian food and knows to wait until the acorn is leeched of its bitterness before taking it. We always wondered if he liked the sound of women pounding acorn and knew when to come and get food.

Interesting enough, the story shows that Bigfoot, at certain times, would risk interacting with humans to gain access to free food. Also it seems the creature even understood that Yokut woman had to do certain things to the acorns before they could be more pleasing to the taste. I have been told that certain First Nation tribes, during harsh winter month, place food in the outer limits of their reservations to keep out hungry Bigfoots. They do this so the Bigfoots who have a hard time finding food during the long winters will not come into their villages and break into their homes and steal food.

Could this placement of food also be a tradition passed down from generations? In another story, it even describes that Bigfoots would take sick children and later after healing them returned back to the tribe. Could it be that the placement of food in the harsh winter months is more of a defense to stop Bigfoot from cannibalizing on the tribes people?

One thing for sure, in many cases, stories and legends can have some truth to them. Yet, in Bigfoots case, the possibilities of these stories being true are questioned by those who do not understand how connected the First Nation tribes are, but to the natives, they believe without a doubt that Bigfoot is real.

Damian Bravo

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