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Nanabozho
[< Algonk.: Ojibwa]
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n.
a supernatural giant, creator-magician and tribal hero of the Ojibwas.
Quotations
1861
To give the Ojibway idea, Nam-a-bush-you had shook his blanket, the old giant was mad.
1953
There is a splatter of islands out from Nipigon House which were thrown into their present positions by Nan-i-bo-zhoo, the tribal hero of the Ojibways. . . .
1963
Tales of Nanabozho . . . is Ojibway lore about the tribe's creator-magician who turned himself to stone and, according to legend, now lies in Lake Superior off the Lakehead ports as the Sleeping Giant.