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ˌhaɪ əˈwɒθ ə, -ˈwɔ θə, ˌhi ə-hi·awatha
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Hiawathanoun
a Native American chieftain who argued for peace with the European settlers (16th century)
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Hiawatha
Hiawatha ( HY-ə-WOTH-ə, also US: -WAW-thə: Haiëñ'wa'tha [hajẽʔwaʔtha]), also known as Ayenwathaaa or Aiionwatha, was a precolonial Native American leader and co-founder of the Iroquois Confederacy. He was a leader of the Onondaga people, the Mohawk people, or both. According to some accounts, he was born an Onondaga but adopted into the Mohawks.
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Hiawatha was a legendary Native American leader and co-founder of the Iroquois Confederacy. Depending on the version of the narrative, Hiawatha was a leader of the Onondaga, or the Mohawk, or both. He was instrumental in persuading the Iroquois to accept the "Great Law of Peace," a democratic constitution that combined five tribes into the Iroquois Confederacy. The name Hiawatha is also famous from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem, "The Song of Hiawatha," although the poem's protagonist has little connection to the historical figure.
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Hiawatha
Hiawatha is a legendary Native American leader and co-founder of the Iroquois confederacy. Depending on the version of the narrative, Hiawatha lived in the 16th century and was a leader of the Onondaga or the Mohawk. Hiawatha was a follower of The Great Peacemaker, a prophet and spiritual leader, who proposed the unification of the Iroquois peoples, who shared similar languages. Hiawatha, a skilled and charismatic orator, was instrumental in persuading the Senecas, Cayugas, Onondagas, Oneidas, and Mohawks, to accept the Great Peacemaker's vision and band together to become the Five Nations of the Iroquois confederacy. Later, the Tuscarora nation joined the Confederacy to become the Sixth Nation.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
Hiawatha
the subject of a poem of Longfellow's; a personage reverenced by the North American Indians as the founder among them of the arts of peace, as well as the clearer of the forests.
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Hiawatha
American Indian who permitted his wife to starve to death simply for the want of proper nourishment. Many claim a great American poet used bad taste in writing the biography of such a man.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Hiawatha in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Hiawatha in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
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