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Mother of Hiawatha
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nokomis
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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 ...
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Population (2000): 2389 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 ...
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.