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Manitou has entered the names of several places in North America.The name of Lake Manitoba (for which the Canadian province of Manitoba is named) derives from the area called manitou-wapow, or "strait of the Manitou" in Cree or Ojibwe, referring to the strange sound of waves crashing against rocks near the Narrows of the lake. [5]
In addition to the Algonquian Anishinaabeg, many other tribes believed in Gitche Manitou.References to the Great Manitou by the Cheyenne and the Oglala Sioux (notably in the recollections of Black Elk), indicate that belief in this deity extended into the Great Plains, fully across the wider group of Algonquian peoples.
Two Ojibwe terms have sometimes been used in a roughly similar manner; namhwin or anamiewin denotes something like "prayer" and is used to describe Christian religion, while mnidooked, meaning to venerate the mnidoog or manitouk, is used to describe an attitude and action associated with traditional Ojibwe religion. [18]
The Manitous: the spiritual world of the Ojibway. HarperCollins Publishers (New York: 1995). Johnston, Basil. The bear-walker and other stories. Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto: 1995). Johnston, Basil. The star man and other tales. Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto: 1997). Johnston, Basil. Mermaids and Medicine Women. Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto ...
Manitou MSI25 Rough Terrain [2] forklift. Manitou is a French heavy equipment manufacturer that makes forklifts, cherry pickers, telehandlers, and other heavy equipment.. Manitou started in France in 1957 when Marcel Braud designed the first forklift truck for use in rough ter
The name 'Manitou Beach' is derived from the Potawatomi name of Devils Lake, "Michemanetue'", meaning, "Lake of God (Michi Mantitou is a variation of the Ojibwe word for the Creator) The Manitou Beach post office was established on March 20, 1889, with Columbus F. Becker as the first postmaster.
Gitchie Manitou is a small (91 acre) nature preserve in Lyon County, in the extreme northwestern corner of Iowa just northwest of Granite, Iowa, or just southeast of Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
The Manitou Islands lie inside the Ottawa-Bonnechere Graben and are part of an eroded volcanic pipe, [7] leaving the multiple islands. The volcanic pipe formed by the violent, supersonic eruption of a deep-origin volcano.