Esta es Nokomis: una princesa indígena de las tribus de los algonquinos, del este de Canada... Nokomis fué la abuela de Hiawatha, el líder que llegó a firmar la paz con los colonos occidentales. Nokomis crió a Hiawatha al perder éste a su madre, y "Nokomis" en lengua algonquina significa "Mi abuela" .
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... Pero Nokomis también es el nombre de la propiedad en la que se encontraba nuestra casa de madera.
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...Este es el paisaje que tenímos Robpom y yo alrededor de nuestra casa... !increíble, una gozada!... flipé de verdad!... de los 5 días que estuvimos allí, casi 3 no nos movimos de la propiedad, paseando mucho y disfrutando dentro y fuera de la casa. La temperatura, de -5º, pero luciendo un sol espléndido todos los días que estuvimos allí. !Yo no quería irme!
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Nokomis seems to be a popular name among the indian. Here is another story/legend linking Nokomis with the maple syrup:
An Amerindian legend attributes the discovery of the maple sugar to Nokomis ( the Earth), the grandmother of Manabush, hero of numerous Indian legends. Nokomis would have been the first oneto drill holes in the trunk of maples and to collect the sap. Manabush, noticing that this sap was a syrup ready to eat, went to find his grandmother and says to (her):
" Grandmother, it is not good that trees produce some sugar so easily. If the people can so effortlessly collect some sugar, they will become lazy. It is necessary to try to make them work. Before they cannot savour this delicious syrup, it would be good that the people are obliged to chop wood and to spend nights watching the making of the syrup. "
Manabush does not say about it longer, but being afraid that Nokomis is indifferent to its words and that she omitted to take measures to prevent the people from becoming lazy; he climbed at the top of a maple with a bucket filled with water and poured the contents within the tree, so dissolving the sugar which was in the maple. (Source : Geographes no 6, Avril 1995, page 9)
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