PONEMAH, a village on the north shore of the southern half of Red Lake, having a U.S. government school for the Ojibwe children, bears a name used by Henry W. Longfellow in The Song of Hiawatha. Minnehaha in dying, and afterward Hiawatha, depart To the Islands of the Blessed, To the Kingdom of Ponemah, To the Land of the Hereafter.