Nokomis is the Ojibwe-Algonquin word for "my grandmother," specifically maternal grandmother — used both as kinship term and personal name. In Algonquin and Ojibwe tradition, Nokomis is the moon-mother and grandmother figure who fell from the sky world and raised her grandson Manabozho (the trickster-creator). *Henry Wadsworth Longfellow drew on this tradition for The Song of Hiawatha (1855), where Nokomis raises Hiawatha after his mother Wenonah's death — "Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis." The name has been used by several towns and lakes in Minnesota* (Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis) and the Atlantic-coast resort community of Nokomis, Florida.
Featured throughout Longfellow's Hiawatha and Anishinaabe oral tradition.
Nokomis reduces to seven — the number of Hiawatha's grandmother.