The Nanabozho Cycle
Born to a human mother and the West Wind, Nanabozho avenges her death and then wanders the Great Lakes country naming the plants and animals and teaching people to fish, and just as often makes himself ridiculous, stuck in a hollow tree or scorching his own backside. When water covers the world he sends the animals diving until muskrat surfaces drowned with a paw full of mud, and out of that he builds the earth again. Anishinaabe oral tradition, told in winter; Henry Rowe Schoolcraft's transcriptions of 1839 were the material Longfellow reworked, and misnamed, as Hiawatha.
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