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These people followed the Miigis shell as it rose and sank to a land where food grew upon water. An otter offered these people’s sacred rites to (15[1])their trickster figure after underwater spirits killed the latter’s wolf brother. The Seven Fires prophecies (15[1])and maps on wiigwaasabak (“weeg-WAH-suh-buck”), or birch bark scrolls, (15[1])trace these people’s migration west. A culture hero of these people defeated Paul Bunyan in a fight, whacking him with a fish in embellished online retellings. A hero of these people also known as Mishaabooz who defeated the (*) Windigo with plenty is imagined walking with Linnaeus among the retellings (-5[1])in Braiding Sweetgrass. Nokomis raised that trickster of these people, erroneously equated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow with Hiawatha. For 10 points, Midewiwin was founded by the rabbit Nanabozho, (-5[1])a trickster venerated by what Great Lakes people? ■END■ (10[2]0[2])

ANSWER: Anishinaabe [accept Ojibwe or Ojibwa or Chippewa or Odawa or Potawatomi or Mississaugas or Nipissing; prompt on Algonquian]
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