Bilingual edition-English and French.?The ?Land of the Wabanki?, (or Red EARTH) as this is called, is the land nearest to the sunrise and to the ?Eastern Gate? where the sun first touches the earth. This is where the name of ?Wabanoag? or the ?People of the Dawn? originates. These Eastern Woodland Tribes including the Mi?kmaqs the Maliseet, the Penobscot and the Passamaquoddy dwell here and consider these lands holy and sacred.In the beginning, or ?Bee-chad-doo? (a long time ago) according to the oral Aboriginal traditions, ?Za-zeus? the Creator God made spirits and souls as companions to him. They lived in the world of spirit and were able to see and influence the physical world. Many of the spirits that were created were benevolent, beautiful, obedient and eager to do the bidding of their creator and Great Spirit.?Glooscap? was the first spirit being created by Za-zeus. He came from the dust and the water of the Earth Mother named Kskit-Gum and was the great cultural hero of many of the eastern woodlands tribes and peoples. Glooscap, short for ?Gell-wuz-zid-ski-dub? or very good man, was an incredibly powe