manitou
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150px|right|thumb|The word manitō (in both Cree language|Cree and Ojibwe) written in [[Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics and Cree syllabics]]
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- Subclass of
- spirit
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- different from
- Manitou Group
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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150px|right|thumb|The word manitō (in both Cree language|Cree and Ojibwe) written in [[Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics and Cree syllabics]]
Manitou () is the fundamental life force in the theologies of Algonquian peoples. It is said to be omnipresent and manifests everywhere: organisms, the environment, events, etc.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “manitou” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.