Mythical Creatures · Entry
Sasquatch
Halkomelem (Salish) via English
“wild man (commonly glossed)”
Where it comes from
sasq'ets, brought into English by the teacher J. W. Burns in the 1920s
The Legend
Burns popularized the word in newspaper columns in the 1920s, and the creature became better known as Bigfoot after the late 1950s.