Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Missing Person - Daniel Trask - "The Caves" - Temagami


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Does anyone know where "the caves" are?

Seal Island Cave??

A NATURAL ROCK CAVE LEADS FROM THE LAKE INTO SEAL ISLAND. ELF-LIKE PEOPLE, THE MAYMAYGWASHI, WERE OFTEN SEEN HERE IN THEIR STONE CANOES. AN OLD FOLKTALE IS ASSOCIATED WITH SEAL ISLAND. 

Lion Queen's Cave??

EVERY INDIAN TRIBE HAS AN ORIGIN LEGEND BASED ON THEIR FIRST APPEARANCE ON EARTH. THE TEMAGAMI CLAIM THAT FAR BACK IN THE MISTS OF TIME, THEIR ANCESTORS SPRANG FROM A CAVE LOCATED IN THE SMOOTHWATER LAKE AREA. 


He had his bow and arrow with him, and as he went along he saw a great snake. He shot it with his arrow. (The big snake became a high rocky ridge on the protage south of Soothwater lake). He came to a big lake with a nice, sandy shore, where he saw Lions (mici'bizi'w   "giant Lynx"). He couldn't shoot them with his arrowas they were too far away, nor was there any place where he could hide himself until they came to sun themselves by the shore, when they felt too cold in the water. Finally he hit upon a plan. He took some birch bark from a rotten stump , rolled it into a hollow cylinder , and placed it, like a wigam, near the shore. He got inside and made a little hole in the bark through which to shoot and kill the Lions. Michipeshu - the Giant Lynx
When the Lions saw the thing on the beach they grew curious to find out what this strange thing was on the beach that was not there the day before. So they sent a big snake to twist around it and try to upset it, but the snake did not succeed in doing this, for Nenebuc stood too firm. So the Lions came ashore upon the sand and Nenebuc shot of them with his arrow - a she-lion, the wife of the Lion Chief. He did not kill her, but wounded her badly in the side, and the flint arrow point stayed in the wound. She was very badly wounded and went back to a hole which led to a cave in a big rock where she lived. Nenebuc was sorry that he had not killed the Lion queen.

http://temagami.nativeweb.org/tale-nenebuc-f.html

1 comment:

  1. Posted on another Missing person page but regards to your son.
    Daniel Cyr I have search dogs and they found people that have not been found .I would like to help the family find there son .I live about 6 hours from where he is missing .My # 705-865-1584 Have the family call

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