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excerpt from

Song of Hiawatha

By
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

On the Mountains of the Prairie,

On the great Red Pipe-stone Quarry,

Gitche Manito, the mighty,

He the Master of Life, descending,

On the red crags of the quarry

Stood erect, and called the nations,

Called the tribes of men together.

 
Manito takes its name from the poem "Song of Hiawatha," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.  The Algonquians of the north recognize as the chief of their Manitos, Gitche (or Kitshi) Manito, the Great Spirit, whom they also call the Master of Life.  This large carving at the entrance to town depicts a native american paying homage to Manito.