Wenonah
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- [ wə-NON-ə ]
- English (Rare)
Variant of WINONA. This spelling of the name was used by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow for the mother of Hiawatha in his epic poem 'The Song of Hiawatha' (1855).
 | WINONA female English, Native American, Sioux Means "firstborn daughter" in the Dakota language. This was the name of the daughter of the Sioux Dakota chief Wapasha III. | |||||||||||||||||||