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Hiawatha

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Hiawatha (hī`əwä`thə), fl. c.1550, legendary chief of the Onondaga of North America. He is credited with founding the Iroquois Confederacy Iroquois Confederacy or Iroquois League (ĭr`əkwoi', –kwä')
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. He is the hero of the well-known poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

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See T. R. Henry, Wilderness Messiah (1955).


Hiawatha


(Ojibwa; “He Makes Rivers”)

Legendary chief (c. 1450) of the Onondaga people of the northwestern U.S. He is regarded by tradition as the founder of the Iroquois Confederacy. His story is told in Henry W. Longfellow's popular poem Song of Hiawatha (1855), though Longfellow perpetuated an error of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft's that placed Hiawatha in a Midwestern tribe.


Hiawatha
adventurous avenger of his father’s wickedness to his mother. [Am. Lit.: Longfellow The Song of Hiawatha in Magill I, 905]
See : Vengeance

Hiawatha
“wise man”; legendary founder of Iroquois Confederacy. [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 229; Am. Lit.: “Hiawatha” in Benét, 466]
See : Wisdom

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