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Encyclopedia Britannica



HIAWATHA (" he makes rivers ")

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 441 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HEG-HIG
HIAWATHA (" he makes rivers ") , a legendary
chief
  (c. 1450) of the Onondaga tribe of North American Indians, The formation of the League of Six Nations, known as the Iroquois, is attributed to him by Indian tradition. In his miraculous character Hiawatha is the incarnation of human progress and civilization. He teaches
agriculture
 , navigation,
medicine
  and the arts, conquering by his magic all the
powers
  of nature which war against man.
See J. N. B. Hewitt, in Amer. Anthrop. for
April
  1892. HIBBING, a
village
  of St Louis county, Minnesota, U.S.A., 75 M. N.W. of Duluth. Pop. (1900) 2481; (1905 state
census
 ) 6566; of whom 3537 were foreign-born (1169 Finns, 516 Swedes, 498 Canadians, 323 Austrians and 314 Norwegians); (igro) 8832. Hibbing is served by the
Great
  Northern and the Duluth, Missabe & Northern railways. It lies in the midst of the
great
  Mesabi iron-ore deposits of the state; in 1907
forty
  iron mines were in operation within To m. of the
village
 . Lumbering and farming are also important
industries
 . The village owns and operates the water-works and electric-lighting plant. Hibbing was settled in 1892 and was incorporated in 1893.


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