Little Water-Spirits
Cree · deity · myth age and present · Recorded classification
A spirit-class (the 'little people' of the rocks/waters), represented collectively and classed 'deity' per schema. 'sex':'none' as a non-gendered collective. Plains Cree SRO mêmêkwêsiw (sing.), mêmêkwêsiwak (pl.); cf. Anishinaabe memegwesi.
Domains
- water
- wilderness
Powers
- dwell in riverbank rocks and rapids
- grant skill and power to those they favor
Sources
- The mêmêkwêsiwak are a class of Cree little water/rock spirits dwelling in cliffs and rapids, capable of helping or harming people.: Alanson Skinner, 'Notes on the Eastern Cree and Northern Saulteaux,' Anthropological Papers AMNH vol. 9 (1911). (ethnography); David G. Mandelbaum, 'The Plains Cree' (1979). (ethnography)