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Minnehaha is a fictional Native American woman ocumented in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1855 epic poem The Song of Hiawatha. She is the lover of the titular protagonist Hiawatha. The name is often incorrectly said to mean "laughing water", though in reality it translates to "waterfall" in Dakota.

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  • Longfellow's Indian heroine whose name means "laughing water"
  • Hiawatha's honey (9)
  • In a poem by Longfellow, Hiawatha's marriage to her is no laughing matter
  • Longfellow wrote, "At the feet of" this maid "Hiawatha laid his burden"
  • "From the waterfall he named her" this, meaning "laughing water"
  • Laugh all you like but Hiawatha's wife in a poem by Longfellow was named for this Minnesota waterfall
  • Minnie Mouse is Mickey's girl & this is Hiawatha's
  • A statue of Hiawatha & this wife stands atop the waterfall named for her

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