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Totem Poles
Totem poles are monumental carved posts associated mainly with Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America. They are especially connected with Haida, Tlingit, Tsimshian, Gitxsan, Nisga'a, Haisla, H…
Txamsem
Txamsem is the Raven culture hero of Tsimshian tradition in the Pacific Northwest of North America. He is associated with the Tsimshian peoples of what is now coastal British Columbia and southeastern Alaska, especially …
Umai-hulhlya-wit
Umai-hulhlya-wit is an obscure name associated in some modern catalogues with Native American mythology. Its precise cultural origin, meaning and identity are uncertain. Unlike better-documented figures such as Coyote, R…
Uncegila
Uncegila, also written Unhcegila, is a great serpent or water monster found especially in Lakota traditional narratives. The name is often rendered in English as “the great serpent,” although translations and spellings v…
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…