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Hiawatha
 
 
(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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