Wabanaki mythology
The mythology Wabanaki brings together the following Native American peoples: Confederation Wabanaki, Pentagouet, Abénaqui, Míkmaq, Micmacs, Mi'kmaq, Penawapskewi, Pentagouets, Pestomuhkati, Passamaquoddys, Wolastoqiyik, Maliseet, Malicite, Maliseet
The Wabanaki confederation (Wabenaki, Wobanaki) was a historic confederation, from the XVIIe and XVIIIe centuries, of five Amerindian nations having the Algonquin language as a common language.
Members of the Wabanaki Confederacy were located in an area they called Wabanaki (Dawnland). To Europeans, this region was known as Acadia and Maine, NewScotland and New Brunswick, plus a small portion of Quebec south of the St. Lawrence River. The western Abenaki were located in New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts.
The members of the Wabanaki Confederation were:
- Pentagouets (west Abenaki)
- (east) Abenaki
- Míkmaq (Micmacs or Mi'kmaq)
- Penawapskewi (Pentagouets)
- Pestomuhkati (Passamaquoddys)
- Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet or Malicite or Maliseet)
They were also allies of Innu, Algonquins and Huron-Wendat.
The confederation ceased to exist in 1862, but five Wabanaki nations still exist today.
Wabanaki mythology (texts)
- Abenaki Creation Story And The Importance Of Dreaming
- Abenaki Emergence Myth
- An Abenaki Witch Story
- Glooscap Turns Bad Into Good
- Gluscabi And The Wind Eagle
- Gluskabe Changes Maple Syrup
- How Glooscap Created Sugarloaf Mountain
- How Glooscap found the summer
- How Gluskabe Stole Tobacco
- Indian summer
- Oochigeas And The Invisible Boy
- Rabbit Calls A Truce
- The Story Of The Drum
- The Strange Origin Of Corn
- Arrowhead finger
- Corn Mother
- How The Great Glooskap Fought The Giant Sorcerers At Saco, And Turned Them Into Fish
- How The Lord Of Men And Beasts Strove With The Mighty Wasis, And Was Shamefully Defeated
- Of The Girl Who Married Mount Katahdin, And How All The Indians Brought About Their Own Rain
- The Giant And The Four Wind Brothers
- The Legend Of The Bear Family
- The Story Of Glooskap As Told In A Few Words By A Woman Of The Penobscots
- First People and the First Corn
- The Water Famine
- Gluskabe Kills The Monster Moose And Creates Landmarks
- Rabbit Calls a Truce
- White Owl, His Escape from the Witches and the Great Beasts
- Pamola
- Wa-Ba-Ba-Nal, The Northern Lights
- Koluskap & His Brother
- Koluskap and the Giant Beaver
- Izignapogos, the Half-Stone Man
- Koluskap & the Giant Skunk
- Koluskap Frees the Water
- Koluskap and Mikumwesu Heal the Scarred Girls
- Mikumwesu Gets Married
- Disappearance of Little Thunder
- Search for Little Thunder
- Return of Little Thunder
- Klu Visits Turtle
- Turtle Goes Before a Council
- Turtle Marries the Chief's Daughter
- Turtle Gets a Whale
- Turtle Plays Football
- Turtle Goes Hunting
- Koluskap Meets the False Koluskap
- Mikumwesu Destroys the False Koluskap
- Koluskap Meets the Imposter's Uncle
- The Empounded Water
- The Enchanted Horse
- Geow-lud-mo-sis-eg: Little People
- Lox
- How Wolverine Was Frozen to Death
- At-O-Sis The Serpent
- Glooscap Fights The Water Monster aka Kluskap Fights The Water Monster
- How A Hunter Visited The Thunder Spirits Who Dwell In Mount Katahdin
- How Glooskap Bound Wuchowsen, The Great Wind-Bird, And made All The Waters In All The World Stagnant
- How Glooskap Changed Certain Saucy Indians Into Rattlesnakes
- How Glooscap Conquered The Great Bull-Frog, And In What Manner All The Pollywogs, Crabs, Leeches, And Other Water Creatures Were Created
- How Glooskap Is Making Arrows, And preparing For A Great Battle. The Twilight Of The Indian Gods
- How Glooskap Made The Elves And Fairies, And Then Man Of An Ash Tree, And last Of All, Beasts, And Of His Coming At The Last Day
- How Glooskap Went To England & France, & Was The first To Make America Known To The Europeans
- How Lox Came To Grief By Trying To Catch A Salmon
- How Lox Deceived The Ducks, Cheated The Chief, And Beguiled The Bear
- How Lox Told A Lie
- How Master Lox As A Raccoon Killed The Pear And The Black Cats, And Performed Other Notable Feats Of Skill, All To His Great Discredit
- How Master Rabbit Went To A Wedding And Won The Bride
- How Partridge Built The Birds' Canoes
- How The Hunter Became A Partridge
- How The Story Of Glooskap And Pook-jin-skwess, The Evil Pitcher, Is Told By The Passamaquoddy Indians
- Married To The Spirit Of Katahdin
- Muggahmaht'adem, The Dance Of Old Age, Or The Magic Of The Weewillmekq '
- Muggahmaht'adem, The Dance Of Old Age (version 2)
- Ne Hwas, The Mermaid
- Of Glooskap And The Sinful Serpent
- Of The Dreadful Deeds Of The Evil Pitcher, Who Was Both Man & Woman, & How She Fell In Love With Glooskap, &, Being Scorned, Became His Enemy. Of The Toads & Porcupines, & The Awful Battle Of The Giants
- Of The Great Deeds Which Glooskap Did For Men; How He Named The Animals, And Who They Were That Formed His Family
- Of The Wolverine And The Wolves, Or How Master Lox Froze To Death
- Of The Woman Who Loved A Serpent Who Lived In A Lake
- Of The Woman Who Married The Thunder, And Of Their Boy
- Origin Of The Black Snakes
- Origin Of The Medicine Man
- The Chenoo, Or The, Story Of A Cannibal With An Icy Heart
- The Flying Canoe
- The Mother Of Serpents
- The Origin Of The Thunderbird
- The Owl Husband
- The Story Of The Great Chenoo, As Told By The Passamaquoddies
- The Thunder And Lightning Men
- The Young Man Who Was Saved By A Rabbit And A Fox
- A Micmac Legend
- Fish-Hawk And Scapegrace
- Glooscap
- How A Certain Wicked Witch Sought To Cajole The Great And Good Glooskap, And Of Her Punishment
- How Glooskap Became Friendly To The Loons, And Made Them His Messengers
- How Glooskap Had A Great Frolic With Kitpooseagunow, A Mighty Giant Who Caught A Whale
- How Glooskap, Leaving The World, All The Animals Mourned For Him, And How, Ere He departed, He Gave Gifts To Men
- How Glooskap Made A Magician Of A Young Man, Who Aided Another To Win A Wife And Do Wonderful Deeds
- How Glooskap made his Uncle Mikchich the Turtle into a Great Man, and got him a Wife. Of Turtles' Eggs, and how Glooskap vanquished a Sorcerer by smoking Tobacco.
- How Glooskap Sailed Through The Great Cavern Of Darkness
- How Kluskap Made The Birds
- How Kluskap Sang Through The Rapids And Found A New Home
- How Master Rabbit Gave Himself Airs
- How Master Rabbit Went Fishing
- How Master Lox Played A Trick On Mrs Bear, Who Lost Her Eyesight And Had Her Eyes Opened
- How Rabbit Got His Long Ears
- How Win-pe the Sorcerer, having stolen Glooskap's Family, was by him pursued, and how Glooskap for a Merry Jest cheated the Whale. Of the Song of the Clams, and how the Whale smoked a Pipe
- Legend Of The Turtle
- Little Burnt-Face
- Micmac Creation Story (version 1)
- Micmac Creation Story (version 2)
- Míkmaq Legend Of The Shooting Star
- Míkmaq Legend Of The Turtle
- Míkmaq Legend Of The Wild Goose
- Míkmaq Women Who Married Star Husbands
- Muin, The Bear's Child
- Nukumi And Fire
- Of Glooskap And The Three Other Seekers
- Of Other Men Who Went To Glooskap For Gifts
- Of The Great Works Which Glooskap Made In The Land
- Of The Surprising And Singular Adventures Of Two Water Fairies Who Were Also Weasels, And How They Each Became The Bride Of A Star. Including The Mysterious And Wonderful Works Of Lox, The Great Indian Devil, Who Rose From The Dead
- Rabbit And Otter, The Bungling Host
- Rabbit And The Moon Man
- Raccoon Learns A Lesson
- Robbery And Murder Revenged
- Snowshoe Island Legend
- Story Of The Three Strong Men
- The Adventures Of The Great Hero Pulowech, Or The Partridge
- The Bird Whose Wings Made The Wind
- The Changing Of Mikjikj
- The Chocolate Waters Of The Petitcodiac River aka The Legend Of The Tidal Bore
- The Creator Visits
- The First Pine Trees
- The Girl-Chenoo
- The Invisible One
- The Legend Of Kluskap's Departure
- The Legend Of The Big Bear
- The Legend Of The Islands
- The Little People
- The Mikumwess
- The Reversing Falls Legend
- The Hidden One
- The Tale Of Glooskap As Told By Another Indian. Showing How The Toad And Porcupine Lost Their Noses
- The Tide
- The Water Fairies
- The Wind-Blower
- The Woodpecker Girls
- Tumilkoontaoo, Or The Broken Wing
Books on Algic mythology
Comics / Illustrated:
In French :
Only in English:
- Chi-mewinzha: Ojibwe Stories from Leech Lake
- The Legend of Sleeping Bear
- The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend
- The Legend of Bigfoot: Leaving His Mark on the World
- The Crow's Tale: A Lenni Lenape Native American Legend
- The Algonquin Legends of New England
- Tales from Maliseet Country
- Wyandot Folk Lore
- The First Fire: Stories Of The Cherokee, Kickapoo, Kiowa, And Tigua
- Forgotten Tales of Michigan's Upper Peninsula
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