- Nokomis/Nursed the
little Hiawatha and
educates him. In the
Ojibwe language,
nookomis means "my grandmother," thus
portraying Nokomis of the poem and the aadizookaan...
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important uses in
traditional Ojibwe culture.
Honoured with the name
Nookomis Giizhik (Grandmother Cedar), the tree is the
subject of
sacred legends...
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cosmology and traditions. It is
sometimes described as
Grandmother Cedar, or
Nookomis Giizhig in Anishinaabemowin. In the book
Black Elk Speaks,
Black Elk, an...
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Explorers and
Pioneers of Minnesota.
North Star
Publishing Company. p. [1]. "
Nookomis Gaa-Inaajimotawi: What My
Grandmother Told Me," in
Oshkaabewis Native Journal"...
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would speak not only of one's
grandfather (nimishoomis) and
grandmother (
nookomis),
father (noos) and
mother (ningashi), or son (ningozis) and
daughter (nindaanis)...
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preterit (which
marks a
deceased or no-longer
existent person or object, e.g.
nookomis, "my grandmother", nookomisiban, "my late grandmother"), and preterit-dubitative...
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Falls Minneiska Minneola Minnetonka Muskoda Nashwauk Nokomis – from
Ojibwe nookomis: "my grandmother"
Nokomis East
Nisswa Ogema Township – from
Ojibwe ogimaa:...
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Ojibwe and English.
University of
Northern Colorado (Greeley, CO: 1978).
Nookomis Gaa-Inaajimotawid: What My
Grandmother Told Me with
texts in
Ojibwe (Chippewa)...
