Gitche Gumee

Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. You may find more data at gitche gumee.

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Gitche Gumee.

But we were soon out of the maelstrom after we picked up the key to our reserved cabin at park headquarters, drove to the cabin (called Gitche Gumee) and parked in the woods.

NYT > Travel 2009
Gitche Gumee translates roughly to "Shining Big-Sea-Water".

the faerie queene vs. beowulf pay-per-view 2007
By the shores of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood the wigwam of Nokomis, Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis . . .

Great Regulars: Some poems make a terrible racket: Rus Bowden 2007
In his 1855 epic poem "The Song of Hiawatha," Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote: "On the shores of Gitche Gumee, Of the shining Big-Sea-Water ..."

coloradoan.com - Local News 2010
Q: In Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem "Song of Hiawatha" he refers to the tepee on the shores of Gitche Gumee.

Berks county news 2009
Longfellow called the lake Gitche Gumee in his Ojibway epic “The Song of Hiawatha”; Nokomis is named for Hiawatha’s grandmother, who pitched her wigwam by its shores.

Dinner Deep in Walleye Territory 2009
A: Gitche Gumee is a Native American name for Lake Superior and means Big Water.

Berks county news 2009