Algonkin
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The Algonkin myth in its most extended form describes the earth maiden as becoming a mother through being looked at by the sun.
From Creation Myths of Primitive America In relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind by Jeremiah Curtin
The Jesuits' Relations state positively that there was "no one immaterial God recognised by the Algonkin tribes, and that the title 'The Great Manito' was introduced first by themselves in its personal sense."
From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Andrew Lang
Indians of the Algonkin tribe named this tree family, and taught the early colonists in Virginia to use for food the ripe nuts of the shagbark and mockernut.
From Trees Worth Knowing by Julia Ellen Rogers
With the Blackfeet, they are the most western branch of the great Algonkin family.
From Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians by W. H. Jackson
This Algonkin myth is one of the most beautiful and significant, not among creation, but among action myths.
From Creation Myths of Primitive America In relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind by Jeremiah Curtin
Had the Iroquois been friends of the Algonkins and acted with them, there could have been no doubt of the triumph of France at that juncture.
From Creation Myths of Primitive America In relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind by Jeremiah Curtin
From here they carried war south clear to the Cherokees of Tennessee, west clear into the land of the Illinois, and north to the Algonkins at Quebec of the lower St. Lawrence River.
From Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin
This makes them a separate section of the Algonkins.
From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
The Algonkins, however, thought otherwise, and the myth itself suggests a theriomorphic earth-maker.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various
The eastern Algonkins were fond of medicine or mystery.
From American Indians by Frederick Starr
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