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Post by hermin1 on Sept 25, 2009 14:31:44 GMT -5
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Post by wakanhotanin on Sept 30, 2009 10:49:04 GMT -5
Living here at Devils Lake I can tell you almost everything you want to know about Miniwakan or The Sacred Water.
The original writing of what is posted is in The Chester Fritz Library at the U of ND, Grandforks. It is a true story except for the writers embellishments.
The "Monster" is nothing of the kind. The Unktehi are one of the Tob kin Tob (16) spirits of God. The Water Spirit was worshiped separately in the Wakan Wacipi (Sacred Dance) or Grand Medicine Society. I use the past tense "worshiped" as I think the society is defunct among the Dakota but is viable among the Hocak and Ojibwe.
Later,
Louie
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Post by hermin1 on Oct 2, 2009 18:22:34 GMT -5
Louie:
welcome back, stranger.Just kidding.
I just posted what I found at that web site.
We would very much like to know about theMiniwakan.
By the way, do you have anything on a woman named Red Arrow. I believe she was born there at Devils lake. I would appreciate what you may be able to send re. her.I have a family trying to trace her line back.
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Post by wakanhotanin on Oct 6, 2009 12:32:50 GMT -5
Miniwakan is the second largest salt lake in the USA.
It is one of the homes of the Water Spirit Unktehi. There are other lakes in Indian country with the same Spirit like Spirit Lake, Iowa.
There is just too much to write about and post here in this form.
Red Arrow might have been born at Spirit Lake but left as a baby.
There is no one by this name allotted here. If she lived in Canada I suspect her parents were from Ft. Peck or moved there and were alloted there. Red Arrow might have met Henry Twobear at some event and moved with him to Prince Albert.
Later,
Louie
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