Animism

Native Americans are animists, which means that they believe that everything that moves (clouds, water, leaves, wind) is alive.

As a result, they live in harmony with nature and have a story for each of its components, such as trees and flowers, birds and animals, the moon and stars. The star looking up is a nenuphar.

The snow that falls from the mantle of Wakinu, the Bear, when it crosses the Bridge of Dead Souls on its way to the Eternal Hunting Lands is known as the Milky Way.

The Pleiades are seven poor children who became stars because of their constant cold and hunger.

Animism in Geography and Climate

In the six worlds of the micmac, located in eastern Canada and northern New England, the same area has life.

Trunks are powers of the natural world, stars are people hunting through the sky, and the Kaqtukwag are people who adopt both human and bird shape. As they fly, their whistle is what causes the noise and the strong winds of the storms beneath them.

Winds are people, just like stations and directions. The mountains, like the lakes and rivers, and the icebergs that float in the sea, have life. The strange aspects of the landscape are people who are thought of with affection or who can be comforted with gifts.

In some stories, cliffs and rocks appear as "transformable beings" who choose these ways to hide or rest. When Ki'kwa'ju discovers that the rock he has bothered begins to roll behind him, ravaging the forest in his way, he discovers these rocks can be powerful and terrible beings.

The grass is the stone of the thunder that falls from the sky in the form of balls or even as arrowheads or spears. A giant that lives in the limits of our world creates cold, windy winds as he takes the snow and ice out of his home with a stick.