"Orenda"A 16x40" original acrylic on canvas featuring a cream agate sphere. Inspired by a summer walk on Wahnabezee, meaning Swan Island. This is the name by which Belle Isle was known to the Anishinaabe peoples native to the area before European settlers colonized Detroit. orenda n. 1. a supernatural force believed by the Iroquois to be present, in varying degrees, in all objects or persons, and to be the spiritual force by which human accomplishment is