| While I didn't share a belief in the manitous, I could still be awestruck by the power around me. |
| 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. |
| You and your people have forgotten the manitous, you have forgotten to respect the very things that give your people life. |
| My father strung it high in a tree for the manitous to watch over. |
| For Native peoples the earth was special, the dwelling place of manitous and spirits and the repository of the bones of generations of ancestors. |
| Shamans were considered to be closer to manitous than ordinary people and could gain power from them either to heal or to kill. |
