View allAll Photos Tagged sasquatch
Photo Credit: Alex Crick for KEXP
Find NPR music's entire coverage from the 2011 Sasquatch Music Festival here: www.npr.org/sasquatch/
Various local legends were compiled by J. W. Burns in a series of Canadian newspaper articles in the 1920s. Each language had its own name for the local version. Many names meant something along the lines of "wild man" or "hairy man" although other names described common actions it was said to perform (e.g. eating clams). Burns coined the term Sasquatch, which is from the Halkomelem sásq’ets and used it in his articles to describe a hypothetical single type of creature reflected in these various stories.