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Bemisang (“ Thunder that carries something along ”) became the creeper, wemis . 
Jauwinokwe (“Southern woman v ) became the bluebird, jajawin. 
Jingguak (“ Pine tree ”) became the red squirrel, djidimo. 
Gajigukke (“ Daily sky ”) became the black squirrel. 
Shauwanangkwit (“ Southern clouds ”) became the chipmunk. 
Wasedban (“Dawn”), a woman, became the humming bird. 
Bidabinokkwe (“Approaching day”), a woman, became the cedar waxwing, 
zagibononci. 
Jauskugizik (“ Blue sky ”) became the otter, which is bluish. 
Pemajong (“Water torrent”) became the mink, jangwis . 
Kabian (“Northwest wind"') became the fisher, djik. 
Monkiki (“ Hardwood grove ”) became the marten, wahjes. 
Minokamikgizigokkwe (“Spring sky woman ”) became the beaver, amik. 
Kabjiassin '(“Light rays that go ail round”) became the muskrat, ojask. 
Awan (“Fog mist”) became the weasel. 
Anishinabe (“Human being”) became the wasp; consequently the wasp now 
attacks people. 
Wenshkaube (“ Faces the wind ”) was told by Shauwanigizik to flap his arms. 
He flapped his arms and became the seagull, geashk. 
Shwawogan (“Eight bones”) became the eagle, migiziwash. 
Bimankwit (“ Body of clouds sailing by ”) became a duck with blue head and 
big bill, zimo. 
Pidwedweanomut (“Sound of aproaching wind or storm”) became a duck with 
brown head and grey body, azig. 
Pidankwidokkwe (“Approaching cloud”), a woman, became the black duck, 
nenshib. 
Oktowanakskam (“ Floats in air ”) became the turkey, mizisse. 
Djitjinkwuskam (“Earthquake ”) became the buffalo. 
N aganggabo (“ Man leading ”) became the goose, nikka. 
Bemkwunasan (“ Lightning ”) became the horse . 1 
The birds now go south in the autumn because Shauwanigizik created them in 
the south. 
After these transformations the sun approached the earth so closely that it 
scorched everything. It shrivelled up a giant animal until it 'became the tiny mole, 
that hides under stones as it formerly hid from the sun. It shrivelled up, too, the 
big trees, converting them into the small shrubs we know today. 
After this twelve men travelled toward the west, following the sunset way. Two 
of them disappeared on the journey, and their companions did not know what had 
happened to them until they discovered that the earth had taken them; because 
the earth took them to itself trees and grass w-ere able to grow. So only ten men 
reached their destination in the west. There they met Shauwanigizik, who changed 
them into ten different trees, the maple, red birch, white birch, black birch, beech, 
pine, spruce, oak, and two others. This was the origin of our trees. 
Later eight men started together from the east and travelled north. First they 
reached a land of snow. The snow gave place to ice until they came to a huge 
pillar of ice that stretched up to the sky. Beyond this pillar, in the land of the 
dead in the west, they saw Nanibush. A woman was planting a garden there; 
although not dead herself, she had followed her dead child to the west. She told 
them that they had reached the land of the dead, that after they died they too 
would join the multitude, that every night, Nanibush beat his water-drum and the 
people danced in his big wigwam by the light of the fires in the mountains, and 
that his wigwam had many large pots filled to overflowing with the souls of the 
food that mankind eats on earth. From this place the eight men travelled south, 
and met Shauwanigizik, who asked them how long they wished to live. Some said 
a hundred years, others two hundred. To the first man Shauwanigizik said ‘You 
shall live seven hundred years’; to the second ‘You shall live six hundred’; and 
to the remaining six ‘ You shall each live four hundred years." He gave them 
exceedingly long lives in order that they might teach the Indians all they had 
learned” (Jim Nanibush). 
1 There were other transformations, which the informant had forgotten. 
