{"product_id":"2940013476899","title":"THE SONG OF HIAWATHA","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroductory Note\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eI.       The Peace-Pipe\u003cbr\u003eII.      The Four Winds\u003cbr\u003eIII.     Hiawatha's Childhood\u003cbr\u003eIV.      Hiawatha and Mudjekeewis\u003cbr\u003eV.       Hiawatha's Fasting\u003cbr\u003eVI.      Hiawatha's Friends\u003cbr\u003eVII.     Hiawatha's Sailing\u003cbr\u003eVIII.    Hiawatha's Fishing\u003cbr\u003eIX.      Hiawatha and the Pearl-Feather\u003cbr\u003eX.       Hiawatha's Wooing\u003cbr\u003eXI.      Hiawatha's Wedding-Feast\u003cbr\u003eXII.     The Son of the Evening Star\u003cbr\u003eXIII.    Blessing the Corn-Fields\u003cbr\u003eXIV.     Picture-Writing\u003cbr\u003eXV.      Hiawatha's Lamentation\u003cbr\u003eXVI.     Pau-Puk-Keewis\u003cbr\u003eXVII.    The Hunting of Pau-Puk-Keewis\u003cbr\u003eXVIII.   The Death of Kwasind\u003cbr\u003eXIX.     The Ghosts\u003cbr\u003eXX.      The Famine\u003cbr\u003eXXI.     The White Man's Foot\u003cbr\u003eXXII.    Hiawatha's Departure\u003cbr\u003eVocabulary\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroductory Note\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    The Song of Hiawatha is based on the legends and stories of\u003cbr\u003emany North American Indian tribes, but especially those of the\u003cbr\u003eOjibway Indians of northern Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.\u003cbr\u003eThey were collected by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the reknowned\u003cbr\u003ehistorian, pioneer explorer, and geologist.  He was superintendent\u003cbr\u003eof Indian affairs for Michigan from 1836 to 1841.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Schoolcraft married Jane, O-bah-bahm-wawa-ge-zhe-go-qua (The\u003cbr\u003eWoman of the Sound Which the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky),\u003cbr\u003eJohnston.  Jane was a daughter of John Johnston, an early Irish\u003cbr\u003efur trader, and O-shau-gus-coday-way-qua (The Woman of the Green\u003cbr\u003ePrairie), who was a daughter of Waub-o-jeeg (The White Fisher),\u003cbr\u003ewho was Chief of the Ojibway tribe at La Pointe, Wisconsin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Jane and her mother are credited with having researched,\u003cbr\u003eauthenticated, and compiled much of the material Schoolcraft\u003cbr\u003eincluded in his Algic Researches (1839) and a revision published\u003cbr\u003ein 1856 as The Myth of Hiawatha.  It was this latter revision\u003cbr\u003ethat Longfellow used as the basis for The Song of Hiawatha.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Longfellow began Hiawatha on June 25, 1854, he completed it\u003cbr\u003eon March 29, 1855, and it was published November 10, 1855.  As\u003cbr\u003esoon as the poem was  published its popularity was assured.\u003cbr\u003eHowever, it also was severely criticized as a plagiary of the\u003cbr\u003eFinnish epic poem Kalevala.  Longfellow made no secret of the\u003cbr\u003efact that he had used the meter of the Kalevala; but as for the\u003cbr\u003elegends, he openly gave credit to Schoolcraft in his notes to the\u003cbr\u003epoem.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    I would add a personal note here.  My father's roots include\u003cbr\u003eOjibway Indians: his mother, Margaret Caroline Davenport, was a\u003cbr\u003edaughter of Susan des Carreaux, O-gee-em-a-qua (The Chief Woman),\u003cbr\u003eDavenport whose mother was a daughter of Chief Waub-o-jeeg.\u003cbr\u003eFinally, my mother used to rock me to sleep reading portions of\u003cbr\u003eHiawatha to me, especially:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e            \"Wah-wah-taysee, little fire-fly,\u003cbr\u003e            Little, flitting, white-fire insect\u003cbr\u003e            Little, dancing, white-fire creature,\u003cbr\u003e            Light me with your little candle,\u003cbr\u003e            Ere upon my bed I lay me,\u003cbr\u003e            Ere in sleep I close my eyelids!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWoodrow W. Morris\u003cbr\u003eApril 1, 1991\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Song of Hiawatha\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShould you ask me, whence these stories?\u003cbr\u003eWhence these legends and traditions,\u003cbr\u003eWith the odors of the forest\u003cbr\u003eWith the dew and damp of meadows,\u003cbr\u003eWith the curling smoke of wigwams,\u003cbr\u003eWith the rushing of great rivers,\u003cbr\u003eWith their frequent repetitions,\u003cbr\u003eAnd their wild reverberations\u003cbr\u003eAs of thunder in the mountains?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI should answer, I should tell you,\u003cbr\u003e\"From the forests and the prairies,\u003cbr\u003eFrom the great lakes of the Northland,\u003cbr\u003eFrom the land of the Ojibways,\u003cbr\u003eFrom the land of the Dacotahs,\u003cbr\u003eFrom the mountains, moors, and fen-lands\u003cbr\u003eWhere the heron, the Shuh-shuh-gah,\u003cbr\u003eFeeds among the reeds and rushes.\u003cbr\u003eI repeat them as I heard them\u003cbr\u003eFrom the lips of Nawadaha,\u003cbr\u003eThe musician, the sweet singer.\"","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121082450160,"sku":"2940013476899","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013476899_p0.jpg?v=1763581909","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013476899","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}