| The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07. |
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| Hiawatha |
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(h ´ wä´th ) (KEY) , fl. c.1550, legendary chief of the Onondaga of North America. He is credited with founding the Iroquois Confederacy. He is the hero of the well-known poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. | 1 | | See T. R. Henry, Wilderness Messiah (1955). | 2 |
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