Nokomis

Children

• Wiininwaa

Domains

• grandmother earth and moon
• nurture and teaching

Powers

• Nurture and raise the culture-hero brothers

Relations

• mother of: WiininwaaMother of Wiininwaa (Winonah); the existing figure wiininwaa needs parentIds += nokomis.Basil Johnston, The Manitous (1995) — Wiininwaa the daughter of Nokomis (primary)
• grandparent of: NanabozhoGrandmother of Nanabozho, whom she named and raised after Wiininwaa died.Anishinaabe oral tradition — Nokomis grandmother of Nanabozho, who raised him (primary)

Sources

• existence: Basil Johnston, The Manitous: The Spiritual World of the Ojibway (1995); continuing Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) oral tradition; Nokomis as the grandmother of Nanabozho (primary)