196: Native American tribal legends of Giants

They weren't the Native American tribes that existed when the Europeans got there. When the supposed giants were found in some burial mounds and caves in the 1800's, it was all fabricated they say. Yet in the legends of the American Natives who had to fight to take the land off these people for their own, they did indeed exist. So they were known only in stories, and then in excavations by Europeans... as no native would dare dig up a burial mound. So if the natives never saw the bones before Europeans dug them up, yet there own stories said they existed - did they? The natives had old legends of a massive beast that lived a long time ago. That too was deemed a fable until they began to find Mastodon bones in the 1800's - proving the natives were right! They talked of huge beats and they talked of human giants.

The above statement is important. Two stories. Both were disbelieved officially until they were proved otherwise.

The Cherokee called them the Moon People. The Utes and Paiutes spoke of a hideous race of cannibals ten feet tall living in caves. And the Choctaw also have an account of the race of giants that first colonized the Ohio Valley. What kind of Indians lived in the territory the Choctaw and Chickasaw carved out for their new home? According to their traditions, as confirmed by excavations of bones in Tennessee, it was a “race of white giants”. These they had to fight when they arrived in Mississippi in their migration from the west, doubtless Old Mexico. Their tradition states the Nahullo were of wonderful stature; but, as their tradition of the mastodon [which used to be found on the Great Plains], so this was also considered to be but a foolish tale, the creature of a wild imagination, when, lol, their exhumed bones again prove the truth of the Choctaws’ tradition. These giants could have been Rafinesque’s Atlans. Common tales told of femoral bones being five inches longer than the ordinary length, and the jaw bones...so large as to slip over the face of a man with ease.” Many historians, moreover, speculate they were the builders of the Adena mounds.

A story was told by the Comanches in 1857:

Innumerable moons ago, a race of white men, ten feet high, and far more rich and powerful than any white people now living, here inhabited a large range of country, extending from the rising to the setting sun. Their fortifications crowned the summits of the mountains, protecting their populous cities situated in the intervening valleys. They excelled every other nation which was flourished, either before or since, in all manner of cunning handicraft—were brave and warlike—ruling over the land they had wrested from its ancient possessors with a high and haughty hand. Compared with them the palefaces of the present day were pygmies, in both art and arms. They drove the Indians from their homes, putting them to the sword, and occupying the valleys in which their fathers had dwelt before them since the world began. At length, in the height of their power and glory, when they remembered justice and mercy no more and became proud and lifted up, the Great Spirit descended from above, sweeping them with fire and deluge from the face of the earth. The mounds we [i.e. the speaker Chief Rolling Thunder and his Spanish listener] had seen on the tablelands were the remnants of their fortresses, and the crumbling ruins that surrounded us all that remained of a mighty city.

The word Nahoolo or Nahullo “is now emphatically applied to the white race and no other . . . The Nahullo were of white complexion, according to Choctaw tradition, and were still an existing people at the time of the advent of the Choctaws to Mississippi. Navajo legends speak of the Starnake People, a regal race of white giants endowed with mining technology who dominated the West, enslaved lesser tribes and had strongholds all through the Americas. They were either extinguished or “went back to the heavens.” In Ohio, the Mobilian chief Tuscaloosa and DeSoto’s Indian queen Cofitachiqui, were both said to be seven feet tall.

Certainly there religion was a little different. Native Americans talked of the sky father, yet these 'giant's were different.

• Mother Goddess was their religion

• Copper (not bronze) axes

• Polished slate tools including fishing plummets, which were apparently regarded as sacred

• Belief that the Grandmother Moon was the repository of souls

• Diet emphasizing shellfish (for which the double row of teeth probably was selected as an evolutionary advantage in their beachcomber origin out of Africa?)

• Building of fish weirs in North American rivers to trap migrating eels

• Certain vegetarian habits (wild rice, for instance)

• Inscriptions on artifacts, especially pipes, often buried with the dead

• Use of coal and petroleum

• Weaving and looms

• Knowledge of seafaring, mathematics and engineering, including canals and irrigation

• Burying of a dog with a child to guard the latter in the afterlife

• Kingcraft: nobles were buried in seated positions on thrones

When Denisovan Man was first discovered, they had just a fingerbone to go on with DNA. Think about that! Just one little bone to determine a whole new race.

For us, all it will take is one full complete bone or a whole skeleton to be finally accepted as real - that can be tested without secrecy. I wonder what the DNA would show. As we are the only ones to have a long bone in the world that we know of, it might be possible but it's almost turned to stone. We aren't sure if DNA can be extracted although here are now solution washes that can extract DNA deep within the tissue. Personally, I'd rather just present a full skeleton that can't be ignored.

But all legends have an element of truth in them. All the legends, before modern day embellishments, talked, not of tall people, but of tall races.