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Hiawatha
Hiawatha AmericaIroquois tradition makes Hiawatha a sixteenth-century sage. He was instrumental in bringing about the confederation of the five Iroquois tribes known as ‘the five nations’. The hero of Longfellow's poem was an Algonquin chief.
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