Anthropologist J. N. B. Hewitt notes intrinsic similarities between the Haudenosaunee concept of Orenda and that of the Siouxan wakan or mahopa; the Algonquin manitowi, and the pokunt of the Shoshone.
Anthropologist J. N. B. Hewitt identifies overlapping fundamental ideas in the Haudenosaunee concept of Orenda and those of the Siouxan wakan or mahopa, the Algonquin manitowi, and the pokunt of the Shoshone.