51%RatingSave Gender Feminine Usage New World Mythology Meaning & History From Ojibwe nookomis meaning "my grandmother". In Anishinaabe legend this is the name of Nanabozho's grandmother. It was used by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow for the grandmother of Hiawatha in his 1855 poem The Song of Hiawatha [1]. Categories ancestors, elderly, family, grandparents, literature, mythology Sources & References Page at https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Song_of_Hiawatha/Book_III.
