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Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 1820
Land area (2000): 1.668219 sq. miles (4.320668 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.314581 sq. miles (0.814760 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.982800 sq. miles (5.135428 sq. km)
FIPS code: 48875
Located within: Florida (FL), FIPS 12
Location: 27.123732 N, 82.439016 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 34275
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Headwords:
Nokomis
Housing Units (2000): 1130
Land area (2000): 1.300281 sq. miles (3.367712 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.300281 sq. miles (3.367712 sq. km)
FIPS code: 53169
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 39.300435 N, 89.285413 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 62075
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Headwords:
Nokomis
Wikipedia
Nokomis is the name of Nanabozho's grandmother in the Ojibwe traditional stories and was the name of Hiawatha's grandmother in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, The Song of Hiawatha, which is a re-telling of the Nanabozho stories. Nokomis is an important character in the poem, mentioned in the familiar lines.
By the shores of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood the wigwam of Nokomis, Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis. Dark behind it rose the forest.According to the poem, From the full moon fell Nokomis/Fell the beautiful Nokomis. She bears a daughter, Wenonah. Despite Nokomis' warnings, Wenonah allows herself to be seduced by the West-Wind, Mudjekeewis, Till she bore a son in sorrow/Bore a son of love and sorrow/Thus was born my Hiawatha.
Abandoned by the heartless Mudjekeewis, Wenonah dies in childbirth, leaving Hiawatha to be raised by Nokomis. The wrinkled old Nokomis/Nursed the little Hiawatha and educates him.
In the Ojibwe language, nookomis means "my grandmother," thus portraying Nokomis of the poem and the aadizookaan (Ojibwe traditional stories) from a more personal point of view, akin to the traditional Ojibwa narrative styles.
Nokomis is a character in Ojibwe traditional stories.
Nokomis may also refer to:
- Camp Nokomis, girls camp ran by the Merrimack Valley YMCA.
- Nokomis, Alabama, community in Escambia County, Alabama which was a railroad stop
- Nokomis, Florida, census-designated place
- Nokomis, Illinois, city
- Nokomis, Minneapolis, Minnesota, a neighborhood
- Lake Nokomis, part of a chain of lakes connected by Minnehaha Creek in Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Nokomis Regional High School, in Newport, Maine
- The Nokomis Native American Cultural Learning Center in Okemos, Michigan
- Nokomis Elementary School, in Ukiah, California
- Nokomis, Saskatchewan
- Nokomis, Wisconsin
Usage examples of "nokomis".
Drive them not away, Nokomis, They have saved me from great peril In the body of the sturgeon, Wait until their meal is ended, Till their craws are full with feasting, Till they homeward fly, at sunset, To their nests among the marshes.
Beat his timid heart no longer, But the heart of Hiawatha Throbbed and shouted and exulted, As he bore the red deer homeward, And Iagoo and Nokomis Hailed his coming with applauses.
Has perchance the old Nokomis, Has my wife, my Minnehaha, Wronged or grieved you by unkindness, Failed in hospitable duties?
Then of Hiawatha's mother, Of the beautiful Wenonah, Of her birth upon the meadow, Of her death, as old Nokomis Had remembered and related.