These may be dangerous, but they are parts of nature, they are not evil. T he power of rapids, or a storm on a broad lake, both of which hiss and roar like big cats, will be frightening to anyone, but especially to canoeists. We can only try to avoid their rampages. Morrisseau learned the knowledge that his grandpa and other elders were able to teach. I don't think so.
People are good or bad.
Nature, however symbolized, however perceived, just is. But science isn't part of the WestCiv European culture, it's a kind of separate house, that's been inhabited by wise folk of many societies over thousands of years. Three centuries of this propaganda made many Indians believe that, too. Later editions were titled Summer in the Spring . Meanwhile, here's the 1888 reservation newspaper article.