Little Water-Spirits

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

• Alanson Skinner, 'Notes on the Eastern Cree and Northern Saulteaux,' Anthropological Papers AMNH vol. 9 (1911).
• David G. Mandelbaum, 'The Plains Cree' (1979).