As mentioned in the introduction, long before the word Tsuchigumo was associated with being a type of yokai, it was a derogatory term used to demonize an ethnic group of people in Japan. While many scholars agree that the yokai was influenced heavily by these indigenous people, very little information can be found about the Tsuchigumo tribe. In a broad sense, Tsuchigumo was a term used to describe inhabitants that were beyond the reach of the emperor's control to rule Japan. Because they refused to serve the emperor, they were eliminated under the reign of the Yamato imperial court. In a way, the Tsuchigumo Tribe's narrative is very similar to that of Native Americans. Similarly to how the White Anglo-Saxon Americans wanted to conquer America, the Yamato Imperial Court wanted to rule Japan and when like Native Americans the Tsuchigumo people refused to bow down to their conquerors and conform, they were wiped out without legitimate reason (Kimura, 29). This may also explain why the Tsuchigumo Tribe remains such an allusive topic. Most information written about the Tsuchigumo Tribe is found in the ancient texts Nihonshoki and Kojiki which were both written from the Yamato Court's point of view. Even though our knowledge on the Tsuchigumo people is greatly reduced due to only having access to the conqueror's history, we can still a learn a lot about how these people were portrayed through the Nihonshoki and the Kojiki. Learning more about how the word Tsuchigumo emerged and the negative connotation surrounding this word will also help us understand the portrayal surrounding Tsuchigumo as a yokai.