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bear has remained on that bluff, and jfrom the spot where sank the two cubsnthere gradually arose two beautiful (islands, the North and South Manitou,or, as it •means in the vernacular of theOttawa*, Spirit Islands. The spirits of the cubs are supposed! to abide on the islands, and that of the mother bear keeps a constant and loving watch over the homes of her loved ones, where they are bound to remain until ter-rcstial time shall be no more, when they will be transported to the Indian heaven, or happy hunting grounds, not as victims of the huntsmen, but as guardians of the Indians, who love them.On stormy nights, the Indians say the spirit of the mother bear moans and cries from her post on the great sand bluff, in anxiety for the fate of her young, the shores of whose home j ] are being assailed by the treacherous waves which caused their death.—Detroit Free Press,nmNiTY nowMFn
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Gogebic Iron Spirit
Bessemer, Michigan, US
Sat, Feb 28, 1891
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