Wolf, the Trickster Younger Brother

Authored as the named, attested younger brother of cree_wisahkecahk, who is currently recorded as solitary. Classed demigod (a being of the myth-age, brother of the transformer), paralleling the wolf-kin of Anishinaabe Nanabozho.

Domains

• transformation
• the underworld waters

Powers

• runs with Wisahkecahk as his wolf-brother and helper
• is drowned by the underwater lynxes and serpents

Relations

• sibling: Wîsahkêcâhk

Sources

• Leonard Bloomfield, Plains Cree Texts (American Ethnological Society 16, 1934) (wîsahkêcâhk and the Wolf).
• Survey of Cree oral tradition recording Mahihkan the Wolf as the younger brother of Wîsahkêcâhk, slain by the underwater lynxes and horned serpents.