(Ojibwa; " He Makes Rivers ")
Legendary chief (с 1450) of the Onondaga people of the northwestern U.S. He is regarded by tradition as the founder of the Iroquois Confederacy .
His story is told in Henry W. Longfellow 's popular poem Song of Hiawatha (1855), though Longfellow perpetuated an error of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft 's that placed Hiawatha in a Midwestern tribe.