Behind the Name: Meaning, Origin and History of the Name Hiawatha

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GENDER: Masculine USAGE: History, Native American PRONOUNCED: hie-ə-WAHTH-ə (English) [key] Meaning & History From the Iroquoian name Haio-went-ha meaning "he who combs". This was the name of a 16th-century Mohawk leader who founded the Iroquois Confederacy. He was later the subject of a fictionalized 1855 poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.	MORE INFORMATION Ratings Comments Tweet

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