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Articles about Native American mythology within North America.
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Untunktahe
Untunktahe is a name associated with a powerful water being in traditions connected with the Lakota and other Dakota-speaking peoples of the northern Great Plains. The spelling is not uniform, and the form “Untunktahe” m…
Utset
Utset is a name associated in some modern reference works with a female creator or earth-mother figure of the Pueblo peoples of the American Southwest. The identification is uncertain, however. “Pueblo” does not describe…
Wabasso
Wabasso is a name found in English-language accounts of Algonquian and especially Anishinaabe—also called Ojibwe—traditional stories. It is most often associated with a rabbit or hare, sometimes specifically a white rabb…
Wakan Tanka
Wakan Tanka is a sacred concept in Lakota religious tradition, commonly translated into English as “Great Mystery,” “Great Sacred,” or, less precisely, “Great Spirit.” The name is associated with the holy and mysterious …
Wendigo
Wendigo is a powerful and dangerous being associated chiefly with Algonquian-speaking peoples of the Great Lakes, the northern woodlands and parts of subarctic North America. The name appears in several related forms, in…
Weywot
Weywot is a figure associated with the traditional mythology of the Tongva, an Indigenous people of the Los Angeles Basin and the Southern Channel Islands in present-day California. In commonly circulated accounts of Ton…
Wishpoosh
Wishpoosh is a giant beaver associated especially with traditional stories of the Columbia Plateau, including traditions connected with the Nimiipuu, commonly known as the Nez Perce, and neighboring Indigenous peoples of…