The Song of Hiawatha

The Song of Hiawatha is an epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow based on the legends of the Ojibway Indians. Longfellow credited as his source the work of pioneering ethnographer Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, specifically Schoolcraft's Algic Researches and History, Condition and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States.

External links

• The Song of Hiawatha by Longfellow
• Article on Hiawatha, the Iroquois chief "Hiawatha's name was appropriated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his 1855 poem The Song of Hiawatha. However, Longfellow's poem, set in the Great Lakes area, has almost nothing to do with the historic figure of Hiawatha."—Kathryn A. Abbott, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
• Hiawatha and the Iroquois Confederation, essay by Horatio Hale
• Page images of Schoolcraft's The Hiawatha Legends
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