The Song of Hiawatha
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The Song of Hiawatha is an 1855 epic poem in trochaic tetrameter by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow which features Native American characters. The epic relates the fictional adventures of an Ojibwe warrior
Hiawatha and Minnehaha, a bronze sculpture created by Jacob Fjelde in 1912 near Minnehaha Falls in Minneapolis
Minnehaha, a marble statue created in 1868 by Edmonia Lewis, now on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
Hiawatha, an 1868 marble statue by Edmonia Lewis now on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Hiawatha's Friends, an 1889 illustration by Frederic Remington dedicated to the poem
Hiawatha
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Hiawatha, also known as Ayenwatha or Aiionwatha, was a precolonial Native American leader and cofounder of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. He was a leader of either the Onondaga people, the Mohawk peop
The Song of Hiawatha
…personage." Longfellow was following Schoolcraft, but he was mistaken in thinking that the names were synonymous. The name Hiawatha is derived from a pre-colonial figure associated with the League of the Iroquois located in New York and Pennsylvania. The popularity of Longfellow's poem nevertheless led to the name…
Hiawatha, 1874 painting by Thomas Eakins