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The word “sasquatch” is a corruption of the word ''se'sxac'', which came from the Bitterroot Salish tribe of Western Montana, meaning “wild men”, and the first use of this word can be traced to the research of a school teacher at the Chehalis Indian Reserve in British Columbia named J.W. Burns in the mid-1920s.  Burns had collected a large amount of material referring to the legends of the sasquatch by the Pacific northwest tribes, noting the similarity between the slightly different names used by individual tribes when referring to the wild men, and then possibly combining them all into one word.  The famous modern term ''bigfoot'' has been in use since approximately the same time, but received national exposure during the late 1950s, when loggers in northern California county of Humbolt began seeing the large tracks for which they were named.
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The word “sasquatch” is a corruption of ''se'sxac'', which came from the Bitterroot Salish tribe of Western Montana, meaning “wild men”, and the first use of this word can be traced to the research of a school teacher at the Chehalis Indian Reserve in British Columbia named J.W. Burns in the mid-1920s.  Burns had collected a large amount of material referring to the legends of the sasquatch by the Pacific northwest tribes, noting the similarity between the slightly different names used by individual tribes when referring to the wild men, and then possibly combining them all into one word.  The famous modern term ''bigfoot'' has been in use since approximately the same time, but received national exposure during the late 1950s, when loggers in northern California county of Humbolt began seeing the large tracks for which they were named.
    
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