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Hiawatha

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“He who combs”

Hiawatha from the Iroquoian name Haio-went-ha meaning "he who combs". This was the name of a 16th-century Mohawk leader who founded the Iroquois Confederacy. He was later the subject of a fictionalized 1855 poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

HistoryNative AmericanIroquois4 syllables · /ˌhaɪ.əˈwɑː.θə/

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