Project Bigfoot: The Native American Possibility

People are basically animals. We have the same basic needs and the same basic survival skills that all animals possess with one big difference, we are much more intelligent. We tend to consider ourselves to be civilized, and some how above the wild animals, but would it be so hard to believe that less than 200 years ago some humans, under very heavy prosecution, took shelter deep in remote areas of the wilderness?

Fearing for their very lives, they did not build fires, they did not build homes, they hid from their enemies and they fell back on their animalistic skills to survive. They became wild as we all once were.

Consider the fact that Native Americans covered all of north America from shore to shore well into the 1800's. When the U.S. congress passed the Indian removal act in 1830 the US government began the often brutal process of forcing all of the Indians to move west of the Mississippi river. Many thousands of Native Americans died. They where forced to choose one of three fates. They fought and died at the hands of a superior force, they allowed themselves to be relocated, or they took shelter and hid from their enemies. I believe that I personally would have chosen the later option.

In what was called the trail of tears, when the Cherokee people ( as well as all the other tribes of Native Americans ) where force to march as much as 800 miles to end up west of the Mississippi where they where suppose to stay, over 4000 Cherokee died. That is nearly one out of every five died on the trail. That was in 1839.........Yeah 1839, just 168 years ago. It is my theory, and shared by many of us here at www.projectbigfoot.com that some of the ancestors of the Native Americans that decided to hide and take shelter in the wilderness still survive today. We are only talking about 3 or 4 generations of people. It is not that outlandish of a thought. If I where forced to take shelter in the woods today to hide from a monstrous brutal enemy, I believe I could survive, and that some day, someone, somewhere, would come across one of my grand children or great grand children.

168 years since the trail of tears, ....that is like only yesterday. As we search for Bigfoot or other unknown creatures, lets also keep our eyes and our minds open to the possibility, the possibility of "wild humans".........very likely decedents of a proud Native American heritage and perfectly capable to adapting to life in the wilderness, only driven to the wild by modern mans brutish nature., still hiding from their enemy.........us.