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| | Mixing Traditions in Raincoast Sasquatch |
 | | In the new book, Raincoast Sasquatch: Bigfoot, Sasquatch Evidence from Indian Lore by J. Robert Alley (Seattle: Hancock House, 2003; ISBN 0-88839-508-6), the author tackles Sasquatch accounts from some of the same peoples (the Tsimshian, Tlingit, and Haisla) with whom I have worked during the last eight years in northwestern British Columbia and southeast Alaska. |
 | | The Tsimshian call Sasquatch ba'wis, which is also their word for (familiar, Old World) ape or monkey -- species they did not know about until European contact, of course. |
 | | Sasquatch are not particularly elaborated in Tsimshian (and neighboring nations') legend or ceremony, perhaps even less so than most other animals in their territory. |
| www.lorencoleman.com /raincoast_sasquatch.html (635 words) |
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