boozhoo !
The Anishinaabe word for:
hello!; greetings!
Boozhoo / Hello.
Do you ever wonder once in a while where the Anishinaabe word for “boozhoo” came from. When two Anishinabayg meet they say “Boozhoo”. One person told me why we use this word boozhoo word. We are asking a question when we use the word boozhoo. We are asking the person; “Are you Nanaboozhoo?” We want to know if he or she might be Nanabush. That is why the Anishinabayg still are looking for this Spirit Nanaboozhoo. He or she is still here. Are you Nanaboozhoo?
Source: http://anishinabeknews.ca/2016/03/22/reasons-we-say-boozhoo/
The story behind Boozhoo:
Pictograph of Nanabozho on Mazinaw Rock, Bon Echo Provincial Park, Ontario
In Anishinaabe aadizookaan (traditional storytelling), particularly among the Ojibwe, Nanabozho , also known as Nanabush, is a spirit, and figures prominently in storytelling, including the story of the world's creation.
Nanabozho is the Ojibwe trickster figure and culture hero (these two archetypes are often combined into a single figure in First Nations mythologies, among others).
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanabozho
Nanabosho is commonly depicted as an animal such as a raven or coyote which lives near the tribe and which are cunning enough to make capture difficult.
The Raven steals the Light:
Before there was anything, before the great flood had covered the earth and receded, before the animals walked the earth or the trees covered the land or the birds flew between the trees, even before the fish and the whales and seals swam in the sea, an old man llived in a house on the bank of a river with his only child, a daughter. Whether she was as beautiful as hemlock fronds against the spring sky at sunrise or as ugly as a sea slug doesn't really matter very much to this story, which takes place mainly in the dark.…
More : https://www.historymuseum.ca/cmc/exhibitions/aborig/reid/reid14e.html