| You and your people have forgotten the manitous, you have forgotten to respect the very things that give your people life. |
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| For Native peoples the earth was special, the dwelling place of manitous and spirits and the repository of the bones of generations of ancestors. |
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| While I didn't share a belief in the manitous, I could still be awestruck by the power around me. |
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| As guardians of the wards over which they were appointed, the manitous could withhold from hunters permission or opportunity to kill. |
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| Shamans were considered to be closer to manitous than ordinary people and could gain power from them either to heal or to kill. |
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| Illinois men and women interacted with the supreme deity by way of personal spirits called manitous. |
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| Personal insight is gained from all the manitous met during a vision quest. |
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| After all the chiefs of the different tribes had recounted how the messengers had been put on the wrong trail by evil manitous that were conniving with the Thunder God, it was the animals' turn to speak. |
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| My father strung it high in a tree for the manitous to watch over. |
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