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  1. 16th-century North American Indian teacher
  2. and Onondaga chieftain. He is said to have
  3. welded the Five Nations (later joined by a
  4. sixth) of the Iroquois into the league of the
  5. Long House, as the confederacy was known in
  6. what is now upper New York State. Hiawatha is
  7. the hero of Longfellow's epic poem The Song
  8. of Hiawatha.
  9.