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manitou

Presiding or protecting spirit in the religious beliefs of several American Indian peoples of the Algonquian linguistic group. Each person has a manitou, which is almost always connected with an animal chosen by the individual as the object of special veneration. The idea of a supreme being, or Great Manitou, also existed.
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