Nehnehbush said, “My elder brother, can you break the laws they established for the human?” “No.” “Please do! Break them.” “Nehnehbush, I may not.” Nehnehbush persisted. The Character resisted, “No, I cannot. What you desire is evil for man.” Nehnehbush prostrated himself on the ground and wept before his “brother,” then rose to coax his brother more, promising that if he broke the laws, Indians would offer him sacrifices in memory of their departed dead and that “I will make you as beautiful as possible.”
So the Character responded, “Now, Nehnehbush [indicating coldness by ignoring the reciprocal kinship term], it is foolish to ask this. It brings great injustice to the Indian. Yet it is not hard for me to do and I will do it”
Cleaned Image
The 'rabbit ears' are thought to radiate shaman mystical powers.
Nanabush
(or Nanabozho, Nehnehbush)
The Trickster in his Rabbit form
Pictograph, Mazinaw Rock, Bon Echo Provincial Park, Ontario en.wikipedia.org
Then Nehnehbush began to ornament his brother. He took silver and made scales, in between which he placed gold scales.…show more content… A reason for why so few native names have been noted for posterity appears not to be just a difficulty of 'foreigners' with the Anishinabe language but also one of lack of interest or sensitivity. An example of this is an encounter between The Muskoka Club founders, on their third annual trip to the Muskoka Lakes, and the local Objiwe Chief James “Peg-e-me-gah-bo” (Bain J.W., 1863, cited in References, Pegahmagabow means 'it advances and halts, advances and halts' as a hurricane halts uprooting trees). With his poor english the Chief tells these well educated young men (aged in their early 20s) the names of many of the lakes, including Lakes Joseph, Rouseau and Muskoka, but alas they do not note them in their logs of the day (on July 23, 1863) nor any of their other
