n. a supernatural giant, creator-magician and tribal hero of the Ojibwas.
1861  (1888)  To give the Ojibway idea, Nam-a-bush-you had shook his blanket, the old giant was mad.
1953  There is a splatter of islands out from Nipigon House which were thrown into their present positions by Nan-i-bo-zhoo, the tribal hero of the Ojibways. . . .
1963  Tales of Nanabozho . . . is Ojibway lore about the tribe's creator-magician who turned himself to stone and, according to legend, now lies in Lake Superior off the Lakehead ports as the Sleeping Giant.