Every pop culture reference to Sasquatch or Bigfoot can be traced to one Macleans Magazine article from 1929, written by Indian Agent J.W. Burns, who stole the story of Sas’qets, a core part of Sto:lo cultural identity for thousands of years. Robert Jago is a Sto:lo writer and Sasquatch enthusiast who set out to take Sasquatch back. But the process of cultural appropriation turns out to be more complicated than passing a physical object back and forth, and Jago tells a unique story of how the Sts’ailes people kept their culture alive in the face of genocide, by appropriating appropriation.Links: Macleans, 1929: Introducing B. C.’s Hairy Giants https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1929/4/1/introducing-b-cs-hairy-giantsDevolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre, by Max Brookshttps://www.amazon.ca/Devolution-Firsthand-Account-Sasquatch-Massacre/dp/1984826786The Sasquatch, the Fire and the Cedar Baskets by Joseph (Tony) Dandurandhttps://www.amazon.ca/Sasquatch-Fire-Cedar-Baskets/dp/0889713766Additional music by Audio NetworkSponsors: St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival, BC General Employees Union, Oxio, Article Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.