menabosho

Updated: May 4, 2025

In North America the Algonquin tribes had as their chief deity a "mighty great hare" to whom they went at death. According to one account he lived in the east, according to another in the north. In his anthropomorphized form he was known as Menabosho or Michabo. Hawk.

Various - Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1