The Indian tribes have legends about the extinct race of white giants. Here are a few legends, including the North American Choctaw and Comanche Indians and the Peruvian manta rays.
Choctaw
“Choctaw legends speak of a race of giants that inhabited Tennessee. The Choctaw ancestors who had come to the Mississippi from the west fought with them. The myths say that the nahullo (race of giants) were of enormous stature, wrote Horatio Bardwell Cashman in The History of the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Natchez Indians, 1899.
A Choctaw Indian Playing Stickball, drawing by George Catlin, 1834
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Kashman writes that the word "nahullo" began to be used to refer to all white people, but originally meant the race of white giants. Choctaw met the giants when they first crossed the Mississippi River. Nahullo practiced cannibalism. The Choctaw killed them at the first opportunity.
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Comanches
“Countless moons ago, there lived a race of white people 3 meters tall. They were much stronger and richer than today's white people. They inhabited vast areas of the country, stretching from sunrise to sunset. Their fortresses were crowned with the peaks of the mountains, protecting the people living in the valleys.
They were superior to any prosperous nation before or after them. They excelled in craft skills, were brave and warlike. They ruled over the land they inherited from their ancestors. Compared to them, the current pale-faced seem to be pygmies both in terms of height and craft,”Rolling Thunder, the leader of the Comanche Indian tribe living in the Great Plains, describes the race of giants in 1857.
The leader explained that when this race forgot about justice and mercy and became too proud, they were destroyed by the Great Spirit. All that remains of them are the mounds on the plateau, which are still visible. This story is described by Dr. Donald Yates "Panther", author of books on Indian history.
Navajo
Yates also writes of the Navajo Starnacks: “The majestic race of white giants had a mining industry. They enslaved smaller tribes and had fortresses throughout America. The giants were destroyed or returned to heaven."
Manta
In 1864, Pedro de Cieza de Leon, in the Chronicles of Peru, described the legendary giants that the Manta Indians told him about: "They have stories about giants in Peru, they are passed down from ancestors since very ancient times."
“They arrived on the coast in boats made of reed, the size of large ships. Their height was so huge that an ordinary person was knee-deep. Their limbs are proportional to body size. The heads were frightening: with long hair to the shoulders and eyes, like small plates."
The sexual preferences of the giants disgusted the Indians, and the heavens destroyed the giants for immoral behavior, Leon writes.
Payutes
Payutes have oral legends about red-haired light-skinned cannibals 3 meters tall. They inhabited the Lowcock Cave area of Nevada. It is not entirely clear whether these are the original legends of the sittec giants, or a distortion and exaggeration of the original myths. Most Payutes were killed or died of disease in 1833 during the expedition of Joseph Walker.
According to Brian Dunning of Skeptoid, the pyute legends don't say that sittek are giants. It says that these people lived in Lovecock Cave and practiced cannibalism.
Lovecock Cave
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Human remains have been found in Lovcock Cave. In some bones, the bone marrow was removed, which was probably eaten. However, cannibalism is an infrequent phenomenon among the sitoc.
There is indeed red hair among the remains of the sittek. But black hair can turn red over time.
The Humboldt River near Lovcock Cave, Nevada, where the sithek allegedly lived
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Miners discovered the artifacts in 1912. After excavation, the finds were scattered in a heap before reaching the University of California. The excavations were negligent and did not meet modern standards. According to supporters of the theory of giants, scientists deliberately hid the remains of giants found there.