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Nokomis a town of farmers, miners, heroes
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Nokomis is a town of 2,534 in a farming and coal-mining region of
south central Illinois, about 50 miles southeast of Springfield.
Kickapoo Indians lived in the area when the first white settlers
arrived, and the community is named after the grandmother storyteller
in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem "Hiawatha."
By the shores of Gitche Gumee,
By the shining Big-Sea Water,
Stood the wigwam of Nokomis,
Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis.
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