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An edition of The song of Hiawatha (1855)

Hiawatha's Childhood

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From the book: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.

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American poetry, American poetry ., Children's poetry, American, Children's stories, English, Classic Literature, Fiction, Folklore, Indians of North America, Iroquois Indians, Iroquoise Indians, Juvenile literature, Juvenile poetry, Kings and rulers, Legends, Narrative poetry, Poetry, Spanish language materials, Specimens, Toy and movable books, Translations into French, Translations into Spanish, Directories, Amusement parks, Drama, Hiawatha, 15th cent, Hiawatha, active 15th century, Indians of north america, folklore, Folklore, juvenile literature, Poetry (poetic works by one author), Native Americans, Animals, Human-animal relationships, Grandmothers, Leadership, Nature, Natural history, Stars, Cosmology, Seasons, English drama, Indians of north america, poetry, Children's poetry, Légendes, Indiens, Poésie
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Hiawatha (15th cent), Hiawatha (15th century), Henry Schoolcraft
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Lake Superior, Michigan, Amérique du Nord

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Hiawatha's Childhood
April 1994, Sunburst
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The song of Hiawatha
1960, Dent, E.P. Dutton and Co.
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Shirat Hayaṿatah
1921, Hotsaʼat Moriyah
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The song of Hiawatha
1913, Musson
microform / in English
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The Hiawatha reader, being Longfellow's "The song of Hiawatha,"
1913, Lakeside book company
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Dos lied fun Heiaaha
1910, Yehoash
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The song of Hiawatha of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: ed.
1905, The Macmillan company, Macmillan & co., ltd.
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The song of Hiawatha
1899, Maynard, Merrill & co.
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The song of Hiawatha
1890, H. Altemus
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The song of Hiawatha
1890, Houghton, Mifflin
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Der Sang von Hiawatha
1857, J.G. Cotta
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OL7423757M
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0374429979
ISBN 13
9780374429973
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3613281
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1403490

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Should you ask me, whence these stories?
Whence these legends and traditions,
With the odors of the forest
With the dew and damp of meadows,
With the curling smoke of wigwams,
With the rushing of great rivers,
With their frequent repetitions,
And their wild reverberations
As of thunder in the mountains?
I should answer, I should tell you,
"From the forests and the prairies,
From the great lakes of the Northland,
From the land of the Ojibways,
From the land of the Dacotahs,
From the mountains, moors, and fen-lands
Where the heron, the Shuh-shuh-gah,
Feeds among the reeds and rushes.
I repeat them as I heard them
From the lips of Nawadaha,
The musician, the sweet singer."
added by Kate.

Introduction

By the shores of Gitche Gumee,
By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
Stood the wigwam of Nokomis,
Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis.
Dark behind it rose the forest,
Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees,
Rose the firs with cones upon them;
Bright before it beat the water,
Beat the clear and sunny water,
Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water.
added by Kate.

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