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HIAWATHA (" he makes rivers ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 441 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HIAWATHA (" he makes See also:rivers ") , a legendary See also:chief (c. 1450) of the See also:Onondaga tribe of See also:North See also:American See also:Indians, The formation of the See also:League of Six Nations, known as the See also:Iroquois, is attributed to him by See also:Indian tradition. In his miraculous See also:character Hiawatha is the incarnation of human progress and See also:civilization. He teaches See also:agriculture, See also:navigation, See also:medicine and the arts, conquering by his magic all the See also:powers of nature which See also:war against See also:man. See J. N. B. See also:Hewitt, in Amer. Anthrop. for See also:April 1892. HIBBING, a See also:village of St See also:Louis See also:county, See also:Minnesota, U.S.A., 75 M. N.W. of See also:Duluth. Pop.

(1900) 2481; (1905 See also:

state See also:census) 6566; of whom 3537 were See also:foreign-See also:born (1169 Finns, 516 Swedes, 498 Canadians, 323 Austrians and 314 Norwegians); (igro) 8832. Hibbing is served by the See also:Great See also:Northern and the Duluth, Missabe & Northern See also:railways. It lies in the midst of the great Mesabi See also:iron-ore deposits of the state; in 1907 See also:forty iron mines were in operation within To m. of the village. Lumbering and farming are also important See also:industries. The village owns and operates the See also:water-See also:works and electric-See also:lighting plant. Hibbing was settled in 1892 and was incorporated in 1893.

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