Native American Legends
Algonquin Flood Myth
An Algonquin Legend
The god Michabo was hunting with his pack of trained wolves one
day when he saw the strangest sight, the wolves entered a lake and
disappeared. He followed them into the water to fetch them and as
he did so, the entire world flooded.
Michabo then sent forth a raven to find some soil with which to
make a new earth, but the bird returned unsuccessful in its quest.
Then Michabo sent an otter to do the same thing, but again to no
avail.
Finally he sent the muskrat and she brought him back enough earth
to begin the reconstruction of the world. The trees had lost their
branches in the flood, so Michabo shot magic arrows at them that
immediately became new branches covered with leaves.
Then Michabo married the muskrat and they became the parents of
the human race.
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