a NativeAmericanchief who, in the 16th century, helped to unite the Iroquoistribes into a single group called the Five Nations. He is the subject of a long poem by Longfellow called The Song of Hiawatha (1855), and many Americans know the lines: ...By the shore of gitche Gumee, /By the shining Big-Sea-Water, /Stood the wigwam of Nokomis, /Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis...