WHY DO THE FEDS WANT BIGFOOT TO REMAIN UNDCOMENTED & MYTHICAL?

[georgerm]

Many of us cringe when we see animal species going extinct and feel guilty for not doing more to protect a species. We just haven't developed adequate methods to study bigfoot populations so we can determine if their populations are stable or do we need special methods to ensure bigfoots can raise families and keep stable populations?  

 

[Huntster]

IF these creatures are hominins (and the evidence strongly indicates that they are), the appropriate researchers are as much (or more) anthropologists than biologists, and there is good reason to study the phenomenon in a low key, or even secret way.

 

https://historyreclaimed.co.uk/is-there-a-primitive-society/

[georgerm]

32 minutes ago, Huntster said:

IF these creatures are hominins (and the evidence strongly indicates that they are), the appropriate researchers are as much (or more) anthropologists than biologists, and there is good reason to study the phenomenon in a low key, or even secret way.

 

https://historyreclaimed.co.uk/is-there-a-primitive-society/

What are hominins?

"The term "hominins" (also known as “hominini”) refers to the different species of the genus Homo that make up human evolution. Hominins include Homo erectus, Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis, among other species. The only surviving hominin species is Homo sapiens sapiens, i.e. modern humans."

 

How about Homo sasquatchinsis as being a hominins that is smart enough to avoid human detection.   

 

[Huntster]

1 hour ago, georgerm said:

........How about Homo sasquatchinsis as being a hominins that is smart enough to avoid human detection.   

 

Or have been conditioned over dozens of thousands of years to avoid Homo sapiens because of our penchant for warfare?

[Huntster]

2 hours ago, Huntster said:

IF these creatures are hominins (and the evidence strongly indicates that they are), the appropriate researchers are as much (or more) anthropologists than biologists, and there is good reason to study the phenomenon in a low key, or even secret way..........

 

The U.S. government has literally hundreds of years of experience trying to get native peoples and immigrants to live together in peace. Current events demonstrate that the battles continue. With sasquatchery, and unlike Native American tribes, "mythology" helps keep the political difficulty to such a minimum as to eliminated it altogether.

 

From AI:

 

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Throughout United States history, the federal government utilized two primary, conflicting approaches to handle the presence of Native Americans: forced physical separation (isolation) and forced cultural destruction (assimilation). 

The primary federal attempts to keep Native Americans and white American settlers physically separated spanned from the late 18th century to the late 19th century through specific legislative acts, treaties, and military operations. 

 

1. The Trade and Intercourse Acts (1790–1834)

 

Early federal policy under George Washington sought to establish a clear boundary line between United States territory and tribal lands. Congress passed a series of Nonintercourse Acts that made it illegal for non-Indians to settle on tribal lands, trade with tribes without a federal license, or purchase tribal land directly without federal approval. The goal was to prevent violent frontier conflicts by legally keeping settlers and Native Americans separated, though the federal government routinely failed to enforce these boundaries against westward-moving squatters. 

 

2. The Indian Removal Act of 1830

 

As white population pressure grew, the federal policy shifted from border enforcement to permanent geographic separation. President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act of 1830, which authorized the federal government to force eastern Native nations to cede their ancestral homelands in exchange for lands west of the Mississippi River in what was designated as "Indian Territory" (primarily modern-day Oklahoma).This systematic ethnic cleansing resulted in the forced migration of nearly 50,000 Indigenous people—including the Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, and Seminole—along devastating routes like the Trail of Tears.

 

3. The Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 (The Reservation System)

 

As American settlers breached the Mississippi River and pushed to the Pacific coast, the concept of a massive, isolated "Indian Territory" collapsed. In response, Congress passed the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851, which officially created the Indian Reservation System.

Instead of moving tribes to one distant territory, the federal government used military force to concentrate and isolate Native American tribes onto strictly defined, often economically unviable parcels of land. The goal was to strictly segregate Native Americans from expanding transit corridors, railroads, and white agricultural communities, keeping them under tight federal supervision by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA).

 

The Shift from Separation to Forced Assimilation

 

By the late 19th century, the federal government abandoned its policy of physical separation because white settlers coveted the reservation lands. The government shifted to an aggressive policy of forced erasure and integration:

 

The Dawes Act of 1887: Broke up communal reservation lands into small individual allotments to dismantle tribal sovereignty and sell off the "surplus" land to white settlers.

 

The Indian Boarding School System: Forcibly separated Native children from their families to strip them of their languages, cultures, and identities.

 

The Indian Termination Policy (1940s–1960s): A mid-20th-century effort that legally dissolved over 100 tribes and used the Indian Relocation Act of 1956 to move Native Americans off reservations and into major cities to force them into mainstream urban society.

 

It's tough enough to deal with humanity under ethnic and tribal terms. Sub-species adds complexities and legal uncertainties. Government has very good reasons to keep sasquatches undiscovered. It makes their lives easier, keeps sasquatches living as wild as possible, reduces impacts to sasquatches by humanity, and reduces economic disruptions to a minimum.

 

[georgerm]

4 hours ago, Huntster said:

 

The U.S. government has literally hundreds of years of experience trying to get native peoples and immigrants to live together in peace. Current events demonstrate that the battles continue. With sasquatchery, and unlike Native American tribes, "mythology" helps keep the political difficulty to such a minimum as to eliminated it altogether.

 

From AI:

 

 

It's tough enough to deal with humanity under ethnic and tribal terms. Sub-species adds complexities and legal uncertainties. Government has very good reasons to keep sasquatches undiscovered. It makes their lives easier, keeps sasquatches living as wild as possible, reduces impacts to sasquatches by humanity, and reduces economic disruptions to a minimum.

 

 

 

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It's tough enough to deal with humanity under ethnic and tribal terms. Sub-species adds complexities and legal uncertainties. Government has very good reasons to keep sasquatches undiscovered. It makes their lives easier, keeps sasquatches living as wild as possible, reduces impacts to sasquatches by humanity, and reduces economic disruptions to a minimum.

Government has very good reasons to keep sasquatches undiscovered and let's look at some of those reasons why the Forest Service and BLM probably do not want sasquatch to be discovered and receive a genus and species name. The government knows at some point a bigfoot will be captured or a body or living creature will be recovered. It's just a matter of time before a bigfoot is captured or killed which is necessary to proving its existence, and the government agencies in charge of timber production probably have a plan in place once the discovery happens. What do you think the plan is? When discovery happens an agency will be in charge of the new species and its well being since the public will probably demand that bigfoot's habitat will be protected. Once discovered then problems will begin such as environmental groups will demand that bigfoot be protected and logging close to it's range of operation will probably be stopped. This is when major problems will begin to happen and I will turn this conversation to the members to describe what these problems might be and what are the possible solutions. 

 

Edited 14 hours ago by georgerm

[Huntster]

13 hours ago, georgerm said:

......... The government knows at some point a bigfoot will be captured or a body or living creature will be recovered. It's just a matter of time before a bigfoot is captured or killed which is necessary to proving its existence, and the government agencies in charge of timber production probably have a plan in place once the discovery happens..........

 

I believe you are correct.

 

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........What do you think the plan is?...........

 

That's a huge question. If these creatures are determined to be hominins (and I'm sure they will be), they will be the most unique species on Earth. Unlike any other, they might be determined to have human rights, yet still be considered to be wild animals, thus forced assimilation would be inappropriate, if not outright impossible both for them and us.

 

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.........When discovery happens an agency will be in charge of the new species and its well being since the public will probably demand that bigfoot's habitat will be protected. Once discovered then problems will begin such as environmental groups will demand that bigfoot be protected and logging close to it's range of operation will probably be stopped. This is when major problems will begin to happen and I will turn this conversation to the members to describe what these problems might be and what are the possible solutions. ..........

 

In addition to political resource and land use issues, the criminal behavior issues would have to be ironed out and lived with. For example, everybody would know of their existence, and many would be fearful. so what are the rules if camping and a sasquatch raids your camp at night, even if just curious or stealing your morning granola? Can you shoot it if fearful? It's "human", and there's likely fewer than 5000 of them throughout North America. In comparison, there are @ 22,000 polar bears in North America, and not many more humans in polar bear habitat.