Matthiessen, Peter, 35
Mattson, Peter “the Swede,” 239–240
McAllister, Ian, 76–79, 189–190, 234–235, 265–266
McAllister, Karen, 76
McGill, Lance, 286–287
McLoughlin Lake, 96–101
Medicine Bowls, 46–47
Meldrum, Jeff, 39, 101, 115
memory, 160–161
“men of snow,” 32
mental models and habits, 159–160
Messner, Reinhold, 83–85, 86
Mid and North Coast Timber Supply Area. See Great Bear Rainforest
Milner, Robert, 31–32
Montana, hoaxing in, 47
“Mountain Devils,” attack by, 80–81
Mount Saint Helens, Washington, 80–81
My Quest for the Yeti (Messner), 83
mysticism, 200–201, 242
National Geographic Adventure, 86
Necleetsconnay River, 6, 243, 248–250
Nelson (British Columbia), 29, 31–32
Niagara Escarpment, 32–33
Nickell, Joe, 82
Nisga Nation, 87
Noble Beyond
explained, 219
personal significance and, 261
the Noise, 275–277
North America’s Great Ape: The Sasquatch (Bindernagel), 36, 44–45
Northern Gateway project, 78
Nuxalk Nation, 230. See also Bella Coola community
ceremony to prevent Sasquatch haunting, 9
Four Mile reserve, 236, 237
sightings and, 237–238
tales of Boqs and Sninik, 8
Ocean Falls
arrival in, 191–192
current conditions, 194–195, 210–211
history, 192–194, 210
rain in, 202, 204–205, 216, 220
Saggo’s Saloon, 205–207
oil industry
Heiltsuk First Nation opposition to megaprojects, 74, 75, 89–91
oil spill in Gale Passage, 279–280
pipelines and seaport terminals, 16, 78
Old Town area, 96–101
Oregonian, 80–81
Ornstein, Robert, 159
Ostman, Albert, 80, 177
Owikeno Lake, 149–150, 172
Pacific Mills, 193
Pacific Wild, 76
paranormalists, 24–25
pareidolia, 162
“pattern matches,” 161, 162–163
“pattern mismatches,” 162
Patterson, Roger, 23
Patterson-Gimlin film, 23
perception
cultural responses to mysteries, 240–241
development of abilities of, 159–161
limitations of binary thinking of existence and nonexistence, 273–274
personal mythmaking and, 259–261
reality and, 158–159, 223–224
Phantoms in the Brain (Ramachandran), 169
population requirements, 117
Port Hardy, 14
potlatches, 92–95, 102–103
psychological mirror, Sasquatch as, 126–127, 128, 136
Qqs Project Society, 105–106
Queen of Chilliwack ferry journey, 188–189, 191
Q’vúqva oil spill, 279–280
Raincoast Conservation Foundation, 111, 235
rainfall, 57, 202, 204–205, 216, 220
Rain People, 193–194
Rain People: The Story of Ocean Falls (Ramsey), 211
Ramachandran, V. S., 169
Ramsey, Bruce, 211
reality
as not accessible to conventional senses, 200–201, 274
perception and, 158–159, 223–224
Sasquatches as existing in place between different, 213–214
Sasquatches as mental signatures representing impulses from beyond conventional, 201
state of mind and, 200, 274
“receptive mode” as state of human mind, 200, 202
Regal, Bran, 21–22
The Righteous Mind (Haidt), 170
Riwoche, 115
Robbins, Ian, 176
Robson, Bill, 252
Roosevelt, Theodore, 20
Roscoe Inlet, 66–70, 221
Salish people, 87
salmon
bears and, 153
decline of, 152–153
as fishing bait, 135
hatchery, 96–97
Heiltsuk First Nation and, 113, 120–121
major Pacific species, 59
overfishing of, 120, 128
Sasquatch and, 24, 38
Sanderson, Ivan T., 35–36
saola, 115
Sasq’ets, 20. See also Sasquatch
Sasquatch
as cultural response to mysteries, 240–241
desire to believe in, 243
diet of, 24, 38, 55
existence of, as unimportant, 270–271
as existing in place between realities, 213–214
as immaterial and preternatural, 96
indigenous accounts of, pre-arrival of Europeans, 20, 48
main groups of investigators of, 24–25
as mental signatures representing impulses
from beyond conventional reality, 201
as modern-day holy grail, 260–261
names for, 8, 25, 68, 87, 88, 156
in popular American culture, 11–12
as psychocultural or metaphysical phenomenon, 213
as psychological mirror, 126–127, 128, 136
rarity of, due in part to its natural elusiveness, 144, 145
as superheroes or demigods apart from
humankind, 242
as symbol, 272–273
Sasquatch, characteristics of, 82. See also tracks
in accounts by indigenous peoples, 86–87, 88, 241–242
aggressively territorial, 24
avoidance of humans, 23
behaviors as similar to other primates, 44, 48
failure to react to bear bangers, 110
living groups, 24
nocturnal, 23, 55
physical description, 8, 23, 68, 87
posture, 68, 71
screams of, 11, 114
size differences, 125
smell, 4, 23, 69
speed, 48
stride, 48, 68
Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science (Meldrum), 115
Sasquatch fever era, 26–28
Schäfer, Ernst, 84–85
Schaller, George, 41
Scotland Yard, 39
sea apes, 130
Selkirk range (Canada), 31
Shack Bay, 209
Shah, Idries, 149, 242
shape-shifters, 25, 87
Sheemahant valley, 183
Shino Mohenu, 32
Shipton, Eric, 85
sightings and incidents
“Ape Canyon incident,” 80–81
by author, 223
Bella Coola and Four Mile reserve as hubs
of, 237
at Bluff Creek, 23
by Burns, 21
in Coast Mountains (Canada), 32, 33
crossing Bella Coola valley highway, 11
at Deer Pass Cabin, 283–285
eyewitness testimony reliability, 160
by frontiersmen, 19–20
by Clark Hans, 3–6, 7–8
at Heiltsuk First Nation youth camp, 10, 109–110, 113–114, 136–137
Hoodoo Valley incident, 157–158, 166–167, 179–180, 286–288
by James Hans, 246
in Kashmir, 32
Kitasoo/Xai’xais First Nation and, 190
by Clayton Mack, 237
at Medicine Bowls, 47
near Nelson, 31–32
at Niagara Escarpment, 32–33
Ostman kidnapping, 80
at reservoir behind Bella Bella, 127
in Roscoe Inlet by Brown and companions, 68
on Sonora Island, 50
on Stryker Islan
d, 72–73
by William Housty, 138
Silver King Mountain (British Columbia), 29
The Six Million Dollar Man, 27
Skeptical Inquirer, 82–83
“slaughter Illahie,” 157
smell of Sasquatch
creature’s gamey, 4
wet dog, 23, 69
Sninik, 8, 239
sockeye salmon, 152–153
Sonora Island (Canada), 50
sounds
of creature walking, 4, 30, 252
to draw out Sasquatch, 31
of Little People, 174
of modern big-city life, 275–277
panting, 30, 252
to scare Sasquatch away, 110
screams, 11, 114
“wood on wood,” 114
species, discovery of new, 115
Spirit Bear Lodge, 190–191
Spokane indigenous people, 55
Steller, Georg, 130
Storr, Will, 170, 260
Stowe, Leland, 244
Stryker Island, 72–73
Sufism, 200–201
“survival mode” as default state of human mind, 200, 202
Taylor, Daniel C., 85, 270
Thla’thla, 68, 87
Tibetan blue bears, 84–85
Titmus, Bob, 237
Tlingit people, 88
Toronto suburban woodlands, 17–19
tracks, 65
as bear impressions, 85
dermal-ridges on, 39
footprint sizes, 11, 55, 208–209
found by Bindernagel, 38–39, 43–44
inability to be hoaxes, 38–39
in Koeye valley, 138
photos of McLoughlin Lake, on Facebook, 97–101
plaster-of-Paris casts of, 21, 38–39
seen by Chartrand, 174
Trailing, Bill, 287, 288
trees, 57–58
Twin Lakes, 208–209
Tyrrell, Ivan, 161
Vancouver Island, deforestation, 15
Walker, Elkanah, 55
Wallace, David Rains, 105
War in the Woods, 77
Wendigo, 88
Wexler, Bruce, 169
Wheeler, John Archibald, 3
whistling sound, 65
wilderness areas, 117
The Wilderness Hunter (Roosevelt), 20
“wild men” of North America, 19–20
Willful Blindness (Heffernan), 171
“wood on wood,” 114
“worldviews,” 168–171
Wuikinuxv First Nation community
bald eagles and, 154
grizzly bears and, 153–154
Heiltsuk and, 109, 151, 157
location, 149–150
name for Sasquatch, 156
sockeye salmon and, 153
village described, 154–156
Yagis (supernatural Heiltsuk First Nation sea creature), 17
Yetis, 19, 83, 84–85