Nokomis
[noʊˈkoʊmɪs]Meaning
from Ojibwe nookomis, "my grandmother"
Background Story
Nokomis is the name of Nanabozho's grandmother in Ojibwe traditional stories. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow used it for Hiawatha's grandmother in his 1855 poem The Song of Hiawatha, which retells the Nanabozho stories.
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