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Article: Hiawatha and Minnehaha place names explored: A mixing cultural
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- The Ojibwe News
- Article date:
- November 17, 1995
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Joan A. Mathews
Ojibwe News, The
11-17-1995
Hiawatha and Minnehaha place names explored: A mixing cultural traditions. from the native cultures
"I have at length hit upon a plan for a poem on the American Indians which seems to me the right one, and the only. It is to weave together their beautiful traditions into a whole..." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's diary June 22, 1984.
Thus the atmosphere was created for Longfellow's epic poem The Song of Hiawatha, He pulled his story together by mixing cultural traditions from the Ojibway, Dakota and Onandaga cultures and borrowing from the accounts of ethnologist Henry Rowe Schoolcraft and others. Hiawatha, the resulting character, was a romantic, ...
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