Talk:Onawa, Iowa

Etymology
What is the origin of this place name? Badagnani (talk) 22:17, 15 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I can only guess that it's a word from the Omaha-Ponca language. The Omaha (tribe) reservation is right near the town.  This book on google books claims an Ojibwa origin for a lake in Maine of the same name, though, and mentions Longfellow's poem The Song of Hiawatha.  According to a quick ctrl-f of this site, the poem does not use the word Onawa.   SDY (talk) 22:44, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

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