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Aiè:wate’

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Mohawk

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Aiè:wate’

  1. Hiawatha
    • 1976, Josephine Horne, “Tharonhiawa:kon [The Holder of the Heavens]”, in Kanien’kéha Okara’shón:’a [Mohawk Stories], pages 94-95:
      Aié:wate’ akwé nontá:rehte’ ne wísk nihononhwentsá:ke, Kanien’kehá:ka’, Oneniothá:ka’, Ononta’kehá:ka’, Kaio’konhá:ka’, tánon’ Shotinontowane’há:ka’
      Hiawatha went to the five nations: Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca