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Nokomis

Ojibwe · F

“grandmother”

Where it comes from

nookomis

Fun Fact

Nokomis appears as a grandmother figure in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1855 poem The Song of Hiawatha, which drew heavily (if imperfectly) on Ojibwe oral tradition.

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