Abstract
Religious beliefs are important aspects of culture affecting human behavior. Religion influences such things as foods eaten, clothes worn, personal grooming habits, measurement and use of time, work and wealth-seeking, sex practices, and marriage. Strongly held religious beliefs may also affect an individual's behavior towards things in the physical environment. The ideas about the supernatural held by one's own culture are termed religion; those of other cultures are often called superstition. When Europeans and Americans met the savages of the New World, the topic of their superstitions was often mentioned and was an aspect of native culture which the Europeans/Americans were anxious to change. This article investigates the religious ideas about copper held by the Native Americans living on the shores of Lake Superior. It also shows how these beliefs impacted the life of a member of the Ontonagon Band of Chippewa7 whose behavior in relation to the Ontonagon Copper Boulder2 did
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