This is from Bernal Diaz’s book The Conquest of New Spain from the Cortes expedition to Mexico around 1520. On one occasion an Indian tribe he had made peace with was describing to Cortez a history of their past.

They said their ancestors had told them that very tall men and women with huge bones had once dwelt among them, but because they were a very bad people with wicked customs they had fought against them and killed them, and those of them who remained had died off. And to show us how big these giants had been they brought us the leg bone of one, which was very thick and the height of an ordinary sized man, and that was a leg bone from the hip to the knee. I measured myself against it, and it was as tall as I am, though I am of a reasonable height. They brought other pieces of bone of the same kind, but they were all rotten and eaten away by the soil. We were all astonished b y the sight of these bones and felt certain there must have been giants in that land. And Cortes said that we ought to send the leg bone to Castile so that His Majesty might see it, which we did by the first agents who went there.

What I found remarkable about this account of the giants was how the Indians described them as very bad people with wicked customs. These were the very Indians that Cortes and the Spaniards were constantly admonishing about their own wicked practices of human sacrifice, cannibalism, slavery, rape, plunder and sodomy. If there were things worse than that done by the giants I can’t imagine how bad it was.

I have also read in other books that the giants will return again someday but that is a subject for another thread under a different topic.

Wow ..neet story .. so maybe there were giants after the flood ...peace

Cortes keeping peace with Indian tribes? That's the first time I have heard of that.
He was about "give me your gold, tell me where more is, now meet the Jesuits there here to inflict their religion upon you heathens"

More than likely mistaken dinosaur bones. What else would the ancient people have thought other than giant humans...they definitely wouldn't be thinking giant lizards.

This account is consistent with the fabled Giants of the Solomon Islands. Supposedly, there are several islands where it is common knowledge among the indigenous tribes that these giants, referred to as Nephelim and Half-Castes, still inhabit the inner, removed parts of the land. Also rumored that during WW2, the Japanese encountered them while occupying the islands. Their accounts also point to the giants having a particular interest in the local gold mines, as in they sabotage the worksites. E.g. moving a 10 ton earth movers scoop hundreds of yards... With no tracks... As in, it was thrown. Numerous other stories, look it up.

A facinating find OP. Legends of giants are an intriguing subject for me, considering many cultures relate similar stories. If more collaborating evidence could be found, it could well shed light on the monolithic ruins that litter Central and South America.

Wicked people with bad customs?

Sounds like the human race to me.....