Dave Paulides holds two degrees from the University of San Francisco, and has a professional background that includes twenty years in law enforcement and senior executive positions in the technology sector. A boyhood camping experience with his father in the late 1960s sparked his interest in Bigfoot. In 2004 he formed North America Bigfoot Search where his investigative and analytical experience were invaluable in researching Bigfoot sightings. He spent two years living among the Hoopa tribal members, listening to and recording their Bigfoot stories. The Hoopa Project is his first book, based upon his experiences in the Bluff Creek area of Northern California. Harvey Pratt was educated at the University of Central Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. During his forty-year career in law enforcement he was involved in many high-profile investigations, including the Green River killer, BTK killer, Ted Bundy, the I-5 killer, and the Murrah Federal Building bombing. Harvey is a highly skilled forensic sketch artist specializing in witness descriptive drawing, skull tracing, age progression, soft tissue reconstruction, and photo restoration. Harvey is a member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes and is recognized as one of the traditional Cheyenne Peace Chiefs.
In his book, 'Tribal Bigfoot, ' Dave Paulides switches the light on
to a subject that has too long been in the dark. With an emphasis
on Native American connections to the Sasquatch, Paulides brings
back the art of the eyewitness interview that has, for so long,
been neglected in favor of scientific testimonials that confuse the
reader with the complex jargon. This book contains no fuzzy photos,
but instead contains the rendered images of Harvey Pratt, a
renowned forensic artist...who rendered them from the two greatest
cameras ever built, the human eye and mind. The combined talents of
Paulides and Pratt result in the captured events in the lives of so
many eyewitnesses that an understanding of this complex subject
develops that is compelling. Paulides is a prodigious note taker
that rarely misses a thing in the huge amount of footwork that he
has done for this work. The reader can actually accompany Paulides
to the many and varied places that he has traveled and feel that
the experience is theirs as well. All the testimony is accompanied
by legal documents that are signed by the eyewitnesses themselves,
and all sketches and artwork are signed off...that they are
accurate representations of what was seen.
This is a work that I am especially appreciative of because it has
not filtered through the bad versions of the Patterson-Gimlin film,
but stands alone on its own merit. I encourage anyone that is
interested in the subject to, by all means, get themselves a copy
of 'Tribal Bigfoot' by Dave Paulides. This book will illuminate the
dark places on this subject matter and make the whole subject more
easily understandable.
M.K. Davis
August 2009 Review by Henry May
July 3, 2009
We have all heard how a movie sequel is usually better than the
original. 'The Empire Strikes Back, ' 'Godfather II, '
'Transformers II.' Well, in books, sometimes a sequel comes along
that blows its predecessor away; that has happened with the new
book 'Tribal Bigfoot.' Those who read David's excellent original
book last year (the Bigfoot Book of the Year 2008, ['The Hoopa
Project']) know that there was a good deal of reports from the
Hoopa reservation in Northwest California. For Tribal, David
revisits the NW part of the Golden State, by going to Del Norte,
Siskiyou, Humboldt and Trinity Counties to investigate more reports
that have been investigated by him and his team. He also revisits
Hoopa by asking the witnesses who did not have sketches done for
Project to have the sketches made by Harvey Pratt the famed
forensic artist, which they are. But Paulides goes beyond NW
California in this book; he also travels to the Sooner State of
Oklahoma to interview eyewitnesses, as well as to The Land of
10,000 Lakes, Minnesota. Not only are there witnesses interviewed
and sketches drawn of eyewitness accounts, but Paulides also comes
to some startling conclusions as to the true nature of the
Sasquatch, via DNA tests and just talking to the eyewitnesses and
hearing their descriptions. The DNA tests yield some very
surprising results, and Dave follows the evidence as he sees it to
its conclusions - that Bigfoot is truly more human than ape, and
that they have a language, according to reports he has investigated
of witnesses hearing what sounds like Native American language
coming from the woods, and also hearing from Native American elders
that if a Native American speaks to a Sasquatch in their native
tongue, the Sasquatch will understand it. I cannot recommend this
book highly enough, and give it not 5, not 6, not even 9, but 10
stars!!!!!! Well-done, Dave and Harvey!!!!!!
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