The Song of Hiawatha

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Minneha’ha, Laughing Water; wife of Hiawatha;

a water-fall in a stream running into the

Mississippi between Fort Snelling and the

Falls of St. Anthony

Minne-wa’wa, a pleasant sound, as of the wind

in the trees

Mishe-Mo’kwa, the Great Bear

Mishe-Nah’ma, the Great Sturgeon

Miskodeed’, the Spring-Beauty, the Claytonia Virginica

Monda’min, Indian corn