Question

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 (15[1])to their trickster figure after underwater spirits killed the latter’s wolf brother. The Seven Fires prophecies and maps on wiigwaasabak (“weeg-WAH-suh-buck”), or birch bark scrolls, trace these people’s migration west. A culture hero of these people defeated (15[1])Paul Bunyan in a fight, (-5[1])whacking him with a fish (15[1])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 in Braiding Sweetgrass. Nokomis raised that trickster of these people, erroneously equated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow with Hiawatha. (10[1]-5[1])For 10 points, Midewiwin was founded by the rabbit Nanabozho, a trickster venerated by what Great Lakes people? ■END■ (10[1]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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JinAh KimJinAh and Jordan from Wikiquizmnemonists2515
DMAboy's jitches (ft. DMA)bruh6115
Raymond WangNaocissus and Geoldmond by Hermandrew HessechamPAIN and cornHELL in Columbia66-5
Will Alston1.g4 Test MixtureParden the Interruption7115
Caleb KendrickJJarylandThe Aum-Wein Drinchard by Amogh Tutuola116-5
Alex SchmidtLet's Fighting Loveprotobowling for soup11610
Jacky XuchamPAIN and cornHELL in ColumbiaNaocissus and Geoldmond by Hermandrew Hesse1350
Amogh KulkarniThe Aum-Wein Drinchard by Amogh TutuolaJJaryland1350
Iain CarpenterSandmännchen im HelikopterNJ TRANSit (and bobby i guess)13510

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