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Housing Units (2000): 191
Land area (2000): 0.462309 sq. miles (1.197375 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.462309 sq. miles (1.197375 sq. km)
FIPS code: 53175
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 41.709831 N, 96.021068 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 51557
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Mondamin
Wikipedia
Mondamin may refer to:
- Mondamin (deity), one of the First Nations' maize deities
- The name of several places in the United States:
- Mondamin, Iowa
- Mondamin Township, South Dakota, in Hand County, South Dakota
- USS Mondamin (1864), a United States Navy sloop-of-war or frigate slated to be built late in the American Civil War (1861-1865) but cancelled prior to construction
Mondamin (or Mandaamin) is an Anishinaabe or Miami maize deity.
In traditional Native American/ First Nations' legend, he is believed to have given humans the maize by turning into a maize field after being defeated.
Some of his comparative fame was justified by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem The Song of Hiawatha, where Mondamin appears as maize personified.
A crater on the dwarf world Ceres is named for the deity.
Usage examples of "mondamin".
And as one in slumber walking, Pale and haggard, but undaunted, From the wigwam Hiawatha Came and wrestled with Mondamin.
He meanwhile sat weary waiting For the coming of Mondamin, Till the shadows, pointing eastward, Lengthened over field and forest, Till the sun dropped from the heaven, Floating on the waters westward, As a red leaf in the Autumn Falls and floats upon the water, Falls and sinks into its bosom.