Maine author, gardener, and cook, Leslie Land writes in The 3,000 Mile Garden, her book with Roger Philips, of hearing of a Micmac Indian legend about the origin of the SHAD (an extremely bony fish) that went something like this:
There once was a porcupine who was unhappy with his place in the world, so he asked the Great Spirit Manitou to give him a better situation. Happy to please, the Great Spirit turned him inside out and threw him into the river.
