Hiawatha
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First Nations leader and co-founder of the Iroquois League
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Hiawatha , also known as Ayenwatha or Aiionwatha, was a precolonial Native American leader and cofounder of the Iroquois Confederacy. He was a leader of the Onondaga people, the Mohawk people, or both. According to some accounts, he was born an Onondaga but adopted into the Mohawks.