But some of the old people say it was this way. They say there were four Tortoises, one in the East, one in the West, one in the South, and another in the North. Each Tortoise made it rain for ten days. Therefore the water covered the earth and all the people were drowned.
From Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology.
Early Indian Pottery.
THE GREAT FLOOD
Menomini
MANABUSH[5] wanted to punish the evil manidoes, the Ana maqkiu who had destroyed his brother Wolf. Therefore he invented the ball game.
[5] The Manabozho of the Ojibwas.