The Song Of Hiawatha
contributor: Eric Lease Morgan (Infomotions, Inc.)
creator: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
date: 0000-00-00
extent: 197816
format: text/plain
language: en
publisher: Wiretap Electronic Text Archive
rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/GPL/2.0/
source: hiawatha.txt
subject: hiawatha
subject: water
subject: nokomis
subject: forest
subject: wigwam
subject: longfellow
subject: contents
subject: introductory
subject: note
subject: introduction
subject: peace
subject: pipe
subject: winds
subject: iii
subject: childhood
subject: mudjekeewis
subject: fasting
subject: friends
subject: vii
subject: sailing
subject: viii
subject: fishing
subject: pearl
subject: feather
subject: wooing
subject: wedding
subject: feast
subject: xii
subject: son
subject: evening
subject: star
subject: xiii
subject: blessing
subject: corn
subject: fields
subject: x
type: text
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full text: [pg/etext91/hisong12.txt] The Song of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow CONTENTS Introductory Note 1 Introduction 2 I The Peace-Pipe 5 II The Four Winds 9 III Hiawatha's Childhood 15 IV Hiawatha and Mudjekeewis 20 V Hiawatha's Fasting 26 VI Hiawatha's Friends 32 VII Hiawatha's Sailing 36 VIII Hiawatha's Fishing 39 IX Hiawatha and the Pearl-Feather 44 X Hiawatha's Wooing 50 XI Hiawatha's Wedding-Feast 55 XII The Son of the Evening Star 60 XIII Blessing the Corn-Fields 67 XIV Picture-Writing 71 XV Hiawatha's Lamentation 76 XVI Pau-Puk-Keewis 81 XVII The Hunting of Pau-Puk-Keewis 86 XVIII The Death of Kwasind 93 XIX The Ghosts 96 XX The Famine 101 XXI The White Man's Foot 105 XXII Hiawatha's Departure 110 Vocabulary 115 Introductory Note The Song of Hiawatha is based on the legends and stories of many North American Indian tribes, but especially those of the Ojibway Indians of northern Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. They were collected by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the reknowned historian, pioneer explorer, and geologist. He was superintendent of Indian affairs for Michigan from 1836 to 1841. Schoolcraft married Jane, O-bah-bahm-wawa-ge-zhe-go-qua (The Woman of the Sound Which the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky), Johnston. Jane was a daughter of John Johnston, an early Irish fur trader, and O-shau-gus-coday-way-qua (The Woman of the Green Prairie), who was a daughter of Waub-o-jeeg (The White Fisher), who was Chief of the Ojibway tribe at La Pointe, Wisconsin. Jane and her mother are credited with having researched, authenticated, and compiled much of the material Schoolcraft included in his Algic Researches (1839) and a revision published in 1856 as The Myth of Hiawatha. It was this latter revision that Longfellow used as the basis for The Song of Hiawatha. Longfellow began Hiawatha on June 25, 1854, he completed it on March 29, 1855, and it was published November 10, 1855. As soon as the poem was published its popularity was assured. However, it also was severely cr…