Keewaydin is a neighborhood in the

Nokomis Nokomis is the name of Nanabozho's grandmother in the Ojibwe traditional stories and was the name of Hiawatha's grandmother in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, ''The Song of Hiawatha'', which is a re-telling of the Nanabozho stories. Nokomis is ...

community in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Its boundaries are Minnehaha Parkway to the north, 34th Avenue to the east, 54th Street to the south, and Cedar Avenue to the west. The neighborhood contains the majority of

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. It shares a neighborhood organization with the

Minnehaha Minnehaha is a Native American woman documented in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1855 epic poem ''The Song of Hiawatha''. She is the lover of the titular protagonist Hiawatha and comes to a tragic end. The name, often said to mean "laughing wat ...

, Morris Park, and Wenonah neighborhoods, which are collectively referred to as Nokomis East and served by the

Nokomis East Neighborhood Association Nokomis is the name of Nanabozho's grandmother in the Ojibwe traditional stories and was the name of Hiawatha Hiawatha ( , also : ), also known as Ayenwathaaa or Aiionwatha, was a precolonial Native American leader and co-founder of the Iro ...

(NENA).

References

External links

Minneapolis Neighborhood Profile - Keewaydin

Nokomis East Neighborhood Association
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