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It refers to the Indian name for Lake Superior and was made immortal by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in the Song of Hiawatha.

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Why is lake superior known as lake gitchigoomie?

Gitchigoomie is the Ojibwa(Chippewa) Native American name for Lake Superior.


What does the word gitchigoomie mean?

It's a place name from Longfellow's poem Hiawatha. It is apparently the Ojibway for "big water", and their name for Lake Superior.


By the shores of gitchigoomie poem?

Longfellow wrote the Song of Hiawatha


What does the word gitchagoomy mean?

The word you are looking for is Gitchigoomie, and is the Chippewa Indian name for Lake Superior. Most famous in literature because of its reference in the first line of the epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Song of Haiawatha."


Who wrote the poem by the Shores of Gitchigoomie?

The line is "By the shores of Gitche Gumee" from the epic poem "The Song of Hiawatha" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.


What lake is known as gitchigoomie?

Gitchigoomee is the Ojibwa (Chippewa) word for Lake Superior. Canadian folk singer Gordon Lightfoot sings about Lake Superior in his song THE WRECK OF THE EDMUND FITZGERALD: "The Legend lives on from the Chippewa on down of the big lake they called Gitchigoomee... "


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