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  • NAME: Hiawatha
  • OCCUPATION: Folk Hero, Political Leader, Religious Leader
  • BIRTH DATE: c. 1450
  • AKA: Heowenta

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Hiawatha is a legendary chief of the Onondaga tribe of North America and founded the Iroquois Nation.


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Hiawatha is a legendary chief of the Onondaga tribe of North America and the founder of the Iroquois confederacy. Hiawatha followed a vision given to him by the Great Peacemaker to band together five nations - the Senecas, Cayugas, Onodagas, Oneidas, and Mohawks - to form Five Nations. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote Song of Hiawatha in 1855 about him.

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