What do these peoples of many nations and tribal affiliations, whom global maritime and naval historian Barry M. Gough had good relations with, believe as a resource and spiritual symbol?
Barry M. Gough Barry Morton Gough (born 17 September 1938, Victoria, B.C.) is a global maritime and naval historian based on Canada's Pacific coast. Gough has made in the British Columbia and western North American context a number of monographic contributions to ethnohistory, cross-cultural relations, patterns of missionary acceptance among Northwest Coast peoples, frontier–borderland studies and environmental history. Within the perspective of seapower worldwide, he has worked to explore the maritime dimensions of British Columbia history and to recast and reaffirm the imperial foundations of Canadian history.
Manitou Manitou is the spiritual and fundamental life force among Algonquian groups in the Native American mythology. It is omnipresent and manifests everywhere: organisms, the environment, events, etc. "Aashaa monetoo" means "good spirit", while "otshee monetoo" means "bad spirit". The Great Spirit, "Aasha Monetoo", gave the land, when the world was created, to the Natives (in particular, the Shawnee).