biography
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Hiawatha
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Indian name Heowenta
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pronunciation:
[hiyawotha]
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| male
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| lived:
| (16th-c)
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| biography:
| Legendary Mohawk leader, born in present-day New York State, USA. Although he is known only through Iroquois mythology and legend, it is now generally accepted that he was a real person who was influential in founding the Five Nations League, or Long House - an alliance of five (later six) Iroquois tribes that ended inter-tribal feuding from c.1550, or earlier, to 1775. Longfellow used Hiawatha's name for the hero of his poem (1855), but set the action in Minnesota, and used only elements of the legendary Hiawatha and other Indian stories for his essentially Romantic tale. |
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