Native American Monsters

The Zuni were a Pueblo native american tribe, mostly based out of New Mexico. They believed in Achiyalabopa, a gigantic, bird like god with celestial powers. It possessed rainbow colored feathers as sharp as knives that it could shoot out at amazing speeds if threatened. It usually ended conflicts with a mellowing of the minds. It was once “attributed to the whole of creation”. There is no evidence that this was a hostile creature.

Apotamkin has super human strength and sustains itself with blood. This monster is often misidentified with a Vampire. This creature, however is a human that can transform itself into a giant, fanged, sea serpent. It  lives in the Passamaquoddy Bay and pulls people in to eat them, particularly careless children.

According to the folklore of the Abenaki tribe of the north-eastern United States, the Kee-wakw or a Giwakwa was once a human being who either became possessed by an evil spirit or committed a terrible crime, causing his heart to turn to ice. The creature starts out as the size of a human, but if it is angered, it grows to the size of trees. It supposedly always hungry and rips it's victims apart with it's terrifying fangs. The ice heart is the source of it's power, if you melt it with salt or make it vomit it up, the creature is defeated and might turn it back into a human.

Culloo was a giant bird of prey, said to eat humans and be large enough to carry off a child in its sharp talons. It often haunted the dreams of Native Americans. According to legend, many hunters had tried to defeat the Culloo, but it makes it's nest up too high and on too steep of terrain, no one can reach it.

Adlet originates from the Inuit mythology of Greenland, as well as the Labrador and Hudson Bay coasts. It's a wolf human hybrid and some believe it is the basis for werewolf in popular culture. It's tall with terrifying blue eyes and is extremely fast. The Adlet  often carries a spear that uses it to hunt their prey, such as humans, and eat their flesh. It is believed that the Adlet was created when an Inuit woman mated with a wolf. And that that action created ten hybrid offspring. The woman and her children were exiled on an island. The woman's father felt sorry for them and would sneak them meat in a boot, which one of the offspring would swim back to the island with. One day, the father filled it with rocks and the offspring drowned. This enraged the mother and she sent the rest of her litter to murder the entire village. The offspring didn't stop there, they continued to roam the earth pillaging villages.

Bakwas often called "Wild Man Of The Woods" is one of the supernatural spirits of the Kwakwaka'wakw people of coastal British Columbia. He eats ghost food out of cockle shells and tries to offer this to living humans who are stranded in the woods, in order to bring them over to the ghost world and changed them in to Bakwas. It has large eyebrows and a pointed nose. It is believed that these beasts were originally human spirits that had drowned. These creatures are said to be shy, but once one takes an interest in you, you better watch out.