Stick Indians

When an Indian is traveling up in the mountains in a lonely place and hears a certain bird singing,
he knows it is probably a "stick" Indian. The stick Indians are spirits who live in high gloomy places,
like Grizzly Flats and upper Shitike Creek , and their favorite trick is to sing like a bird in the evening,
when birds don't sing. If you follow the song, the stick Indian will lead you deeper and deeper into
the woods - and you just won't come out, maybe you will lose your mind in there. Some Indians
when they're out huckleberry-picking or hunting scatter matches all around their camp at night -
they say the stick Indians like matches best of all, living in the dark.

                                                 
Hairy Man Pictographs

Painted Rock is located on the Tule River Indian Reservation, above Porterville, in the Sierra Nevada foothills of central California This site, also known as CA-TUL-19, is a rockshelter associated with a Native American Yokuts village. The site, located immediately adjacent to the Tule River, includes bedrock mortars, pitted boulders, midden and pictographs. The pictographs are located within the rockshelter, and are painted on the ceiling and walls of the shelter The pictographs include paintings of a male, female, and child Bigfoot (known as the family), coyote, beaver, bear, frog, caterpillar, centipede, humans, eagle, condor, lizard and various lines, circles, and other geometric designs. The paintings are in red, black, white, and yellow. This rock art site is unique; not only because it contains a Bigfoot pictograph, but also because of the traditional Native American stories that accompany it. There are no other known creation stories involving a Bigfoot-like creature in California. As far as can be determined, there are no Bigfoot creation stories anywhere else in the west. There is also no evidence of any other Bigfoot pictographs. Most states, including California, keep a database of all recorded sites located on federal, state, county, city, or private land. Based on that information, there is no other known Bigfoot pictographs or petroglyphs anywhere in California, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, or Idaho.

Probably the most unusual feature of this site is the presence of an entire Bigfoot family.  Besides the male Hairy Man, there are also a female and child "bigfoot." The mother is 1.8 meters high by 1.2 meters wide, and is solely red . The painting represents a 6-foot high, two-legged creature with her arms open. She has five fingers and little other detail.  Immediately adjacent to her, and directly under her right hand, is her child. The child measures 1.2 meters high by 1 meter wide and is also solely red . The painting represents a 4-foot high, two-legged creature with small arms and five fingers. The figure has an unusually rounded head, suggestive of a sagittal crest.

Clewlow (1978) estimated that the paintings were made around A.D. 500, but could be as old as A.D. 1 or as young as AD. 1200 (2000 to 700 years old). Latta (1949) noted that year-round occupied villages were placed at important places, either where paintings were or at some place where Indian ceremonies were performed. Archaeologically, the village at Painted Rock was occupied in the late prehistoric, around 500 years ago. Since it is believed that the paintings were present prior to the village, the paintings are likely 500-1000 years old.
Bigfoot, sasquatch names, regional names   I ran across an old list of names for bigfoot like creatures. Many of the names for bigfoot, such as sasquatch, come from North America and the United States. I noticed that almasti was missing and I am sure many more are missing, so as I get time I will add to the list.

The Wood Man, Boqs, Snanaik, Bushmen, Timber Giants, Big Figure, Bukwas/Bukwus, Wild Man of the Woods,
Dzonoqua/Tsonoqua, Wild Woman of the Woods, evil seeker, Sne nah, or Owl Women, Tsadjatko, or giants,
Skukum, Hecaitomixw, or Devil of the Forest, Oeh, Tsaaloh, or, Giants, Stick Indians, Sasquatch, Windigo,
The Hairy Man, Nant’ina, Get’qun, Na’in, or Brushman, Koosh Taa Kaa, or Otterman, Nantiinaq, Urayuli,
Miitiipi, Madukarahat, or Giant, Loo poo oi’yes, Yahyahaas, Yeti, Olayome, Oh-Mah, Stoneclad, Nun Yunu Wi,
The Stone Man, Kecleh-Kudleh, Ot ne yar heh, Stonish Giants, Ge no sqwa, The Stone Giants, Ge no’sgwa,
The Stone Coats, Esti Capcaki, Albatwitches, Chiye tanka, Rugaru, The Big Man, Woods Devils, See’atco, Skookum, Yi’ dyi’ tay, Tsiatko, Seatco, Tso’apittse, Cannibal, Ste ye hah, Splintercat, Yeahoh, So’yoko,
T’oylona, Atahsaia, Char-Man, stetats, Nalusa Falaya, Shampe, Skunk ape, Swamp ape, Tornit, Ice Giant,
Man-mountain, Chenoo, Gilyuk, Nyalmo, Orang Dalam, Bosjesman, Oo-el-en, Zoobie, Momo, Lizard man,
Flint Monster, Kung-Lu, Stick Indian, Tuneq, Massikruman, Chuchunaa, Nakani, Nuk-Luk, Devil Monkey,
Honey Island Swamp Monster, No Heads, No necks, Catamounts, Mount St. Helens gorillas, Goat man,
Ft. Worth Monster, Fouke Monster, Boggy Creek Monster.