Living Cavemen in Canada: Neanderthals in First Nations Tradition

In this video, we explore old indigenous Canadian legends which seem to imply that primitive humans like Neanderthals or Denisovans may still exist in some remote corners of the Great White North.

0:00:00 - Legend of the Wildman
0:01:14 - Ivan Sanderson’s Wildman Classification System
0:02:41 - What are Neanderthals?
0:04:30 - The Chuchunaa and the Almas
0:06:25 - Neandertaloids, Marked Hominids, and Erectus Hominids
0:08:07 - Tema’ut: The Cavemen of Shuswap Country
0:10:29 - Woodland and Swampy Cree Legend of the Hairy-Breasts
0:11:55 - Plains Cree Legend of the Hairy Hearts
0:13:43 - Rocky Cree Legend of the Hairy-Heart People
0:17:04 - Nuk-Luk of the Nahanni Valley

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