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What is the origin of this place name? Badagnani ( talk) 22:17, 15 August 2008 (UTC) reply

I can only guess that it's a word from the Omaha-Ponca language. The Omaha (tribe) reservation is right near the town. This book on google books claims an Ojibwa origin for a lake in Maine of the same name, though, and mentions Longfellow's poem The Song of Hiawatha. According to a quick ctrl-f of this site, the poem does not use the word Onawa. SDY ( talk) 22:44, 15 August 2008 (UTC) reply

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