The Tornit are a race of wildmen in Inuit mythology.
Description[]
According to the Anchorage Daily, "... Stories of the Alaska Bushmen, or tornits, have been told since the first humans crossed the Bering Land Bridge. In the beginning, the story goes, the Inuit and the tornits lived peacefully in villages near each other and shared common hunting grounds. The Inuit people often built and used kayaks for hunting. While the tornits were unable to master the building of kayaks, they were very aware of the advantages of having and using one.
One story goes that a young tornit borrowed a young Inuit's kayak without permission and damaged the bottom of it. The young Inuit became very angry and stabbed the tornit in the nape of the neck while he was sleeping, killing him. The rest of the tornits feared that they too, would be killed by the Inuit and fled the country, rarely to be seen again.
Since that time, many stories have come out of the bush of hunters disappearing, later found dead and mangled or never seen again. Apparently, hunters and the Tornits no longer peacefully shared common hunting grounds (www.adn.com)."
The Tornits are said to be much taller than the Inuit, having longer arms and legs, as well as being much stronger, but they have poor eyesight. The Tornits were said to be so strong that they could lift and throw boulders with ease, and lift up a harpooned walrus as easily as an Inuit could lift up a harpooned seal. Whenever the Inuit first arrived, they would play ball together, but the Inuit learned not to play because the Tornits were rougher than they realized, often severely hurting the Inuit.
They lived in houses made of stone and didn't bother to cover them with any extra insulation when the cold seasons came. When they went sealing in the winter, they would fasten down the edges of their coats into the snow with pegs.
Explanation[]
Giants in Alaska
According to cryptozoologist Loren Coleman, the Tornit are in fact Sasquatches/Bigfoots. As he says - "The white man’s names are Sasquatch (invented in 1929 in Canada) and Bigfoot (first used in California in 1958). The name True Giants was coined by Mark A. Hall only a few decades ago. Most First Nations groups, Canadian Natives, American Natives, Inupiat–Yupik, and Inuits have their own names...Inuit people (Inupiat, Inuvialuit, Nunavut, Nunavik, Nunatsiavut, and Kalaallit) have been known to call these creatures Tornit, but also Turnit, Sauman Kar, and Saumen Kar".
These creatures could also be a species of an American primate, most likely a great ape, or a surviving population of Neanderthals, or some other Homo species.