What Does the Name Nokomis Mean
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Nokomis Name Meaning
New World MythologyMeans "my grandmother" in Ojibwe. In Anishinaabe mythology this is the name of Nanabozho's grandmother. It was used by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow for the grandmother of Hiawatha in his poem 'The...
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