Algonkin
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In California Norwan, daughter of the earth, occupies in part the place of the Algonkin hero, the child of the sun and the earth.
From Creation Myths of Primitive America In relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind by Curtin, Jeremiah
With the Blackfeet, they are the most western branch of the great Algonkin family.
From Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians by Jackson, W. H.
The Algonkin tribes of Nova Scotia, Canada, and New England had a great many stories about a great hero named Glooskap.
From American Indians by Starr, Frederick
If brought before him, he would doubtless have looked on them much as a certain French Algonkin and Iroquois scholar of Canada looked on the myths of America.
From Creation Myths of Primitive America In relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind by Curtin, Jeremiah
In fact, they were the terror of their milder Algonkin neighbors.
From American Indians by Starr, Frederick
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