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Hiawatha , 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.

Bibliography: See T. R. Henry, Wilderness Messiah (1955).

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Hiawatha a legendary 16th-century North American Indian teacher and chieftain, hero of a narrative poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow called The Song of Hiawatha (1855).

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