Nokomis is the name of Nanabozho`s grandmother in the Ojibwe traditional stories and was the name of Hiawatha`s grandmother in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow`s poem, The Song of Hiawatha, which is a re-telling of the Nanabozho stories. Nokomis is an important character in the poem, mentioned in the familiar lines. According to the poem, From the fu...... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokomis