Home › Entities › general › manitou

manitou

fundamental life force among Algonquian groups in the Native American mythology, generally appearing as an animal revealed to the head of the tribe as the guardian spirit of it
Thing general Q581839
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

manitou

Summary

manitou ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (320 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • manitou's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh2001006059[2].
  • manitou's subclass of is recorded as spirit[3].
  • manitou's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[4].
  • manitou's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[5].
  • manitou's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[6].
  • manitou's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/manitou-North-American-Indian-religion[7].
  • manitou's different from is recorded as Manitou Group[8].
  • manitou's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007542150005171[9].
  • manitou's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as manitu-10d904[10].
  • manitou's Yale LUX ID is recorded as concept/60e62c9a-058e-467c-a3fc-e2711bf6e74a[11].

Why It Matters

manitou ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (320 views/month).[1] manitou has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . National Library of Israel Names and Subjects Authority File. wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). manitou. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/manitou
MLA “manitou.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/manitou.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_manitou_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{manitou}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/manitou}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): manitou — https://4ort.xyz/entity/manitou (retrieved 2026-04-10)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/manitou · Last refreshed: