[Algonquiana] Legend

[Margaret Ann Noodin]

In the Western Lake Superior region there are memegwesiwag who travel in stone canoes along the shoreline.  These are different from the pa’iinsag who are forest people.  I have copied Alphone Pitawanakwat on the discussion because he knows more about them.

Maaganiit



Margaret Noodin
Director, Electa Quinney Institute for American Indian Education
Assistant Professor of English and American Indian Studies
Book Review Editor, Studies in American Indian Literature
Co-Editor, The Papers of the Algonquian Conference
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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On 6/3/16, 8:36 AM, "Algonquiana on behalf of Bousquet Marie-Pierre" <algonquiana-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org on behalf of marie-pierre.bousquet at umontreal.ca> wrote:

>Kwe kakina, hi everyone,
>
>I am looking for documentation about specific little people. There are different kind of little people among the Algonquins: memegweshik, Anishinabeshishak, Nadoweshishak. I am looking for stories about little people who smell the food to get fed. They come during the night and you know they came because the food has no flavour. One of my informants told me they have no bums and apparently no mouth. I would like to know if someone has heard of that legend.
>
>Kitci mikwetc, many thanks,
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