Minnehaha
Sign in to savethumb|upright=1.1|Hiawatha and Minnehaha, 1912 sculpture by [[Jacob Fjelde near Minnehaha Falls in Minneapolis, Minnesota]]
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- Instance of
- literary character
- Gender
- female
- Country
- United States
- Image
- Minnehaha MET DP371841.jpg
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- Commons category
- Minnehaha
- ethnic group
- Indigenous peoples of the Americas
- present in work
- The Song of Hiawatha
- described by source
- New International Encyclopedia
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- Minnehaha as a name
- In popular culture
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thumb|upright=1.1|Hiawatha and Minnehaha, 1912 sculpture by [[Jacob Fjelde near Minnehaha Falls in Minneapolis, Minnesota]]
Minnehaha ( ; , ) is a Native American character in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1855 epic poem The Song of Hiawatha. She is the lover of the titular protagonist Hiawatha and comes to a tragic end. The name, often said to mean "laughing water", literally translates to "waterfall" or "rapid water" in Dakota.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Minnehaha” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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