HIAWATHA (" he makes

See also:

• RIVERS
• RIVERS, ANTHONY WOODVILLE, or WYDEVILLE, 2ND EARL (c. 1442—1483)
• RIVERS, EARL
• RIVERS, RICHARD SAVAGE, 4TH EARL (c. 1660—1712)

rivers ")  , a legendary chief (c . 1450) of the Onondaga tribe of North American Indians, The formation of the League of Six Nations, known as the Iroquois, is attributed to him by Indian tradition . In his miraculous character Hiawatha is the incarnation of human progress and civilization . He teaches agriculture, navigation, medicine and the arts, conquering by his magic all the powers of nature which war against man . See J . N . B . Hewitt, in Amer . Anthrop. for April 1892 . HIBBING, a village of St Louis county, Minnesota, U.S.A., 75 M . N.W. of Duluth . Pop .

(1900) 2481; (1905

state census) 6566; of whom 3537 were foreign-born (1169 Finns, 516 Swedes, 498 Canadians, 323 Austrians and 314 Norwegians); (igro) 8832 . Hibbing is served by the Great Northern and the Duluth, Missabe & Northern railways . It lies in the midst of the great Mesabi iron-ore deposits of the state; in 1907 forty iron mines were in operation within To m. of the village . Lumbering and farming are also important industries . The village owns and operates the water-works and electric-lighting plant . Hibbing was settled in 1892 and was incorporated in 1893 .