Linda Aksomitis's List: Sasquatch

• A woman from northern Saskatchewan says she saw the legendary sasquatch, and it left behind evidence described by an expert as "the find of the century."
• About 21/2 metres tall and muscular, with long, floppy arms attached to broad shoulders and covered in dark brown hair
• Beatty and her two uncles found in deep snow hundreds of footprints measuring 50 centimetres in length, she said

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• A commenter provided additional information on this term: "Rugaru" comes from the Michif language spoken by the Metis people. Michif is actually a French-Cree/ Algonquian hybrid language. The word "Rugaru" is indeed a cree pronounciation of "Loup Garou."
• Mathiessen reported similar views among   the Turtle Mountain Ojibway in North Dakota, that Bigfoot --- whom they   call Rugaru -- "appears in symptoms of danger or psychic disruption   to the community."

• Turtle Mountain Ojibway in North Dakota, that Bigfoot --- whom they call Rugaru -- "appears in symptoms of danger or psychic disruption to the community." When I read this, I wondered if it contradicted my hypothesis that the Ojibways had identified Bigfoot with Windago, the sinister cannibal-giant of their legends (see Track Record #14); I had surmised that because I had never heard of any other names for, or references to Bigfoot in Ojibway culture, even though there must have been sightings in woodlands around the Great lakes, and indeed sightings in that region have been reported by non-Indians. But the Turtle Mountain band is one of the few Ojibway bands to have moved much farther west than most of their nation; and Rugaru is not a native Ojibway word.