"house, was also epic. The monumental quality survives into the 20th century in Frances Foy's ""Hiawatha returning with Minnehaha"" (1937), a mural sponsored during the Depression for the Gibson City Post Office, Illinois. Parodies of the ""Song of Hiawatha"" emerged immediately on its publication. ""The New York Times"" even reviewed one such parody four days before reviewing Longfellow's original poem. This was ""Pocahontas: or the Gentle Savage"", a comic extravaganza which included extracts from an imaginary Viking poem, ""burlesquing the recent parodies, good, bad, and indifferent, on ""The Song of Hiawatha."""" The ""Times"" quoted: In 1856 there appeared a 94-page"
"Salgari, ""Sulle Frontiere del Far-West"" (1908), ""La Scotennatrice"" (1909), ""Le Selve Ardenti"" (1910), and ""La Vendetta di Minnehaha"" (?). Minnehaha Minnehaha is a fictional Native American woman documented in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1855 epic poem ""The Song of Hiawatha"". She is the lover of the titular protagonist Hiawatha and comes to a tragic end. The name, often said to mean ""laughing water"", literally translates to ""waterfall"" or ""rapid water"" in Dakota. The figure of Minnehaha inspired later art works such as paintings, sculpture and music. ""The Death of Minnehaha"" is a frequent subject for paintings. Minnehaha Falls and her death"
"Minnehaha Minnehaha is a fictional Native American woman documented in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1855 epic poem ""The Song of Hiawatha"". She is the lover of the titular protagonist Hiawatha and comes to a tragic end. The name, often said to mean ""laughing water"", literally translates to ""waterfall"" or ""rapid water"" in Dakota. The figure of Minnehaha inspired later art works such as paintings, sculpture and music. ""The Death of Minnehaha"" is a frequent subject for paintings. Minnehaha Falls and her death scene inspired themes in the 'New World' symphony by Antonín Dvořák. Longfellow's poem was set in a cantata trilogy,"
"Longfellow's epic poem features Hiawatha, a Native American hero who falls in love with Minnehaha, a Native American woman who later dies during a severe winter. Longfellow never visited the falls himself. He was inspired by the writings of Mary H. Eastman and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, and by a daguerreotype created by Alexander Hesler when he chose the name for Hiawatha's lover. The image was taken in 1852, according to a letter written by Hesler, as discussed in ""Minnesota History"" magazine. Beginning in 1828, steamboats began to travel the Mississippi River as far north as St. Paul, the upper limit"
"Hiawatha (sculpture) Hiawath is a 19th century sculpture executed in marble by American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The work, which depicts the Iroquois leader Hiawatha, is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Augustus Saint-Gaudens sculpted his interpretation of the famed Iroquois leader between 1872 and 1874. He was inspired to create the work by ""The Song of Hiawatha"", an 1855 epic poem by poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Longfellow's poem was well received by American audiences, and the epic work resulted in a rekindling of interest in Hiawatha and the waxing days of the Iroquois Confederacy. The poem is"
"in American frontier history could be criticized by a later generation as racist, Schoolcraft had a strong interest in the Ojibwa religion, mythology, and culture. Schoolcraft energetically collected local Ojibwa stories and tales, many of which his mixed-race wife Jane Johnston Schoolcraft told him or translated for him. All of his books were published under his name, with little credit to her or her family. The Massachusetts poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow studied Schoolcraft's works for themes and inspiration for his epic poem, ""The Song of Hiawatha"". To Americans of European ancestry, this Romantic poem and its title character were authentic"
"The Song of Hiawatha (Coleridge-Taylor) The Song of Hiawatha (full name: Scenes from The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow), Op. 30, is a trilogy of cantatas written by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor between 1898 and 1900. The first part, Hiawatha's Wedding Feast, was particularly famous for many years and made the composer's name known throughout the world. ""Hiawatha's Wedding Feast"" consists of nine sections: eight for chorus and orchestra, and one, ""Onaway! Awake, beloved!"", for solo tenor and orchestra. In 1898, Coleridge-Taylor was fresh from his success with his orchestral ""Ballade in A minor"", which was performed at the Three"
"the 1929 ""Hiawatha's Wedding Feast"", with Elsie Suddaby, George Baker and Howard Fry. The work has declined in popularity of recent years, but is still sometimes revived, such as a centenary performance in Boston in October 1998. The Song of Hiawatha (Coleridge-Taylor) The Song of Hiawatha (full name: Scenes from The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow), Op. 30, is a trilogy of cantatas written by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor between 1898 and 1900. The first part, Hiawatha's Wedding Feast, was particularly famous for many years and made the composer's name known throughout the world. ""Hiawatha's Wedding Feast"" consists of nine"
"Longfellow (neighborhood), Minneapolis Longfellow is a neighborhood within the larger Longfellow community in Minneapolis, United States. It is bounded by Seward to the North, Cooper to the East, Howe to the South, and Corcoran and East Phillips to the West. It was named after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who wrote The Song of Hiawatha. It is populated by a diverse, predominantly middle-class (working class) population. More expensive homes are located closer to the river, and almost all of the housing stock is composed of Sears Modern Homes in the Bungalow style. The Eliel Saarinen-designed Christ Church Lutheran, First Free Methodist, and"
"in Ontario, Canada in recognition of her father's favorable representation of the tribe in ""The Song of Hiawatha"" (1855). She and her surviving siblings were made honorary members. She and her two sisters traveled to New Kensington and attended a pageant based on the book performed by members of the Garden River First Nation. Alice Longfellow was the last of the poet's children to remain in the family home; she did little to alter it, with the exception of modernizing bathrooms and installing an elevator. The Longfellow House Trust was created by the surviving children of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and"
"only an abridged copy of the film. Hiawatha (1913 film) Hiawatha is a 1913 American silent drama film directed by Edgar Lewis and based upon Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem ""The Song of Hiawatha"" (1855). The film stars Jesse Cornplanter of the Seneca people and Soon-goot, a 17-year-old unknown actress. The movie is the first feature film to use a cast of American Indians. The story begins along the Lake Superior Michigan shoreline with the appearance of a mighty spirit that tells the Indians a peacekeeper will bring wisdom and unite the warring tribes. Hiawatha is born to Wenonah and"
"Hiawatha (1913 film) Hiawatha is a 1913 American silent drama film directed by Edgar Lewis and based upon Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem ""The Song of Hiawatha"" (1855). The film stars Jesse Cornplanter of the Seneca people and Soon-goot, a 17-year-old unknown actress. The movie is the first feature film to use a cast of American Indians. The story begins along the Lake Superior Michigan shoreline with the appearance of a mighty spirit that tells the Indians a peacekeeper will bring wisdom and unite the warring tribes. Hiawatha is born to Wenonah and after her death her mother Nokomis raises"
"Lake Nokomis Lake Nokomis is one of several lakes in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The lake was previously named Lake Amelia in honor of Captain George Gooding's daughter, Amelia, in 1819. Its current name was adopted in 1910 to honor Nokomis, grandmother of Hiawatha (legendary Indian hero of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, ""The Song of Hiawatha""). It is located in the southern part of the city, west of the Mississippi River and south of Lake Hiawatha. The lake is oval in shape, with a long axis running southwest to northeast. Because the lower part of the lake is crossed by Cedar Avenue"
"The borough was named for the mother of Hiawatha in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's work ""The Song of Hiawatha"". It is a dry town, where alcohol cannot be sold. Wenonah was founded in 1871 by Philadelphia businessmen as a country resort, drawn by its location along the Mantua Creek and on the West Jersey Railroad. Over the next 40 years, numerous dams were installed to create recreational lakes. From 1902 until the Great Depression, Wenonah Military Academy, a private military school, trained cadets there. Throughout its history, Wenonah has been almost exclusively a residential area. Over 21% of the borough's land"
"together, and their cultured, wealthy family was well known in the area. Jane was also known as ""Bamewawagezhikaquay"" (Woman of the Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky). Her knowledge of the Ojibwe language and culture, which she shared with Schoolcraft, formed in part the source material for Longfellow's epic poem ""The Song of Hiawatha"". Jane and Henry had four children together: The Schoolcrafts sent Janee and John to a boarding school in Detroit for part of their education. Janee at 11 could handle the transition, but John at nine had a more difficult time and missed his parents."
"of the 53-foot (16 m) Minnehaha Falls, Minnehaha Park is one of the city's oldest and most popular parks, receiving over 850,000 visitors each year. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow named Hiawatha's wife Minnehaha for the Minneapolis waterfall in ""The Song of Hiawatha"", a bestselling and often-parodied 19th century poem. The first natural swimming pool in the United States opened in Webber Park in 2015. The outdoor pool does not use any chemicals, rather it uses natural filters and plants in several container ponds to keep the water clean. The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board facilities include of land and water, 179"
"""The Song of Hiawatha"" in 1898–1900 by the African-English composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Longfellow's poem also inspired Hugo Kaun's symphonic poems ""Minnehaha"" and ""Hiawatha"" composed in 1901. The character's name has been bestowed upon things, especially in the Great Lakes region of the United States. A ship bearing the name Minnehaha wrecked off the western shore of Lake Michigan in 1893, only 38 years after Longfellow's poem was published. A Minnehaha Bay adjoins the small town of Sturgeon Falls in Ontario, Canada. Minnesota claims Minnehaha Falls, Minnehaha Park, Minnehaha Creek, Minnehaha Academy, and a boat bearing her name once operated by"
"of America"" and was largely a photographed stage play with Longfellow's words spoken in a natural surrounding. Hiawatha, the Messiah of the Ojibway Hiawatha, the Messiah of the Ojibway is a 1903 dramatic short film shot in Canada directed by the American pioneering cinematographer and director Joe Rosenthal, based on the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's famous poem, ""The Song of Hiawatha"", made in Desbarats, Ontario, with a cast of Ojibway First Nations people. According to the ""Canadian Journal of Film Studies"", it was the first dramatic narrative film to be shot in Canada. At 15 minutes, ""Hiawatha"" was considerably longer than"
"Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator whose works include ""Paul Revere's Ride"", ""The Song of Hiawatha"", and ""Evangeline"". He was also the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's ""Divine Comedy"" and was one of the five Fireside Poets from New England. Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine, which was then still part of Massachusetts. He studied at Bowdoin College and, after spending time in Europe, he became a professor at Bowdoin and later at Harvard College. His first major poetry collections were ""Voices of the Night"" (1839)"
"Minnehaha Falls was purchased as a park in 1889. The park was named after a character in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem, ""The Song of Hiawatha"". In 1906, Theodore Wirth came to Minneapolis as the parks superintendent. During his tenure, the park system increased from 1810 acres (7.3 km²) in 57 properties to 5421 acres (21.9 km²) in 144 properties. The park system, organized around the Minneapolis chain of lakes (including Cedar Lake, Lake of the Isles, Lake Calhoun, Lake Harriet, Lake Hiawatha, and Lake Nokomis) became a model for park planners around the world. He also encouraged active recreation"
"Nokomis Nokomis is the name of Nanabozho's grandmother in the Ojibwe traditional stories and was the name of Hiawatha's grandmother in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, The Song of Hiawatha, which is a re-telling of the Nanabozho stories. Nokomis is an important character in the poem, mentioned in the familiar lines.in Ojibwe Nokomis means Grandmother. According to the poem, ""From the full moon fell Nokomis/Fell the beautiful Nokomis"". She bears a daughter, Wenonah. Despite Nokomis' warnings, Wenonah allows herself to be seduced by the West-Wind, Mudjekeewis, ""Till she bore a son in sorrow/Bore a son of love and sorrow/Thus was born"
"the Longfellow classic."" Assigning 2 stars (out of 5), ""The Motion Picture Guide"" stated that ""Edwards is cast as the title character in this family version of the classic Longfellow poem"" and ultimately described it as ""[A]n entertaining film for kids that masks its theme in a flurry of arrows and romance."" Among British references, Leslie Halliwell, in his ""Film Guide"", gave no stars (Halliwell's top rating is 4), dismissing it as a ""[M]uddled actioner which has little to do with Longfellow's poem."" Hiawatha (1952 film) Hiawatha is a 1952 American film based on the 1855 epic poem ""The Song"
"from the poem. The most famous was the 1937 Silly Symphony ""Little Hiawatha,"" whose hero is a small boy whose pants keep falling down. The 1941 Warner Bros. cartoon ""Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt"" features Bugs Bunny and a pint-sized version of Hiawatha in quest of rabbit stew. The 1944 MGM cartoon ""Big Heel-watha,"" directed by Tex Avery, follows the overweight title character's effort to win the hand of the chief's daughter by catching Screwy Squirrel. The Song of Hiawatha The Song of Hiawatha is an 1855 epic poem in trochaic tetrameter by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that features Native American characters. The"
"and best-selling poem “The Song of Hiawatha” (1855) about the Ojibwa warrior, Hiawatha's tragic story with his lover from a rival tribe, Minnehaha (Dakota). There are three busts of Hiawatha in existence and four of the Minnehaha busts. In addition to paying tribute to her heritage, Lewis also took agency by utilizing concepts of the Noble Savage in these works, idealizing and fantasizing the form and dress of the two fictional characters. Unlike other images of this theme and time, Lewis subversively focused not on their naked flesh, which historically attracted male collectors, but on decorating their bodies in clothing,"
"Hiawatha, the Messiah of the Ojibway Hiawatha, the Messiah of the Ojibway is a 1903 dramatic short film shot in Canada directed by the American pioneering cinematographer and director Joe Rosenthal, based on the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's famous poem, ""The Song of Hiawatha"", made in Desbarats, Ontario, with a cast of Ojibway First Nations people. According to the ""Canadian Journal of Film Studies"", it was the first dramatic narrative film to be shot in Canada. At 15 minutes, ""Hiawatha"" was considerably longer than the usual productions of 1903, which rarely exceeded three minutes. The film's subtitle was ""The Passion Play"
"and even during the winter months whilst carrying passengers. Until this time all emigrants were only carried in spring and summer when conditions allowed. She was the most famous ship owned by the McCorkell's and was known as the ""Green Yacht from Derry"". The ""Minnehaha"" was named after the poem ""The Song of Hiawatha"" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Over the next thirty years, six more ships were to join the fleet named after the same poem. The ""Minnehaha"" was one of the few ships to trade in New York to the Federal side during the American Civil War. She carried"
"access they arranged to other Ojibwe. In 1846 he was commissioned by the United States Congress for what became a six-volume study known as ""Indian Tribes of the United States"". Henry Schoolcraft’s publications, including materials written by Jane Schoolcraft, were the main source for Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s ""The Song of Hiawatha"" (1855). They had four children: Jane and Henry Schoolcraft moved to Mackinac Island in 1833, after he had been given responsibility for a larger territory as Indian agent. Their home has since been demolished, but Henry Schoolcraft's office, also known as the Indian Dormitory, survives. It was used to"
"crappie, bluegill, bowfin, largemouth bass, carp, golden shiner, hybrid sunfish, pumpkinseed, tiger muskellunge, walleye, white sucker, yellow bullhead, and yellow perch. Some fish consumption guideline restrictions have been placed on the lake's walleye and white sucker due to mercury contamination. Lake Nokomis Lake Nokomis is one of several lakes in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The lake was previously named Lake Amelia in honor of Captain George Gooding's daughter, Amelia, in 1819. Its current name was adopted in 1910 to honor Nokomis, grandmother of Hiawatha (legendary Indian hero of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, ""The Song of Hiawatha""). It is located in the southern"
"Hiawatha (train) The Hiawathas were a fleet of named passenger trains operated by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (also known as the Milwaukee Road) between Chicago and various destinations in the Midwest and Western United States. The most notable of these trains was the original ""Twin Cities Hiawatha"", which served the Twin Cities in Minnesota. The train was named for the epic poem ""The Song of Hiawatha"" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The first ""Hiawatha"" trains ran in 1935. By 1948, five routes carried the ""Hiawatha"" name: The ""Twin Cities Hiawatha"" was the original ""Hiawatha"", beginning service between"
"1858, and the first school opened in 1870. The main street was designated Oregon Street after the Oregon Trail. Parallel streets north of it were named after Indian tribes north of the Trail, and streets south carried tribal names of those south of the Trail. Hiawatha is named after a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow called ""The Song of Hiawatha"". In the poem is legendary Onondaga and Mohawk Indian leader Hiawatha. Adjacent to the former Ioway-Sac reservation and the present-day Ioway Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska, Hiawatha is called ""Hári Wáta"" in Ioway, meaning ""I am looking far away"". This"
"absurd, and savage as the groundwork is, Mr. LONGFELLOW has woven over it a profuse wreath of his own poetic elegancies."" But, he concludes, ""Hiawatha"" ""will never add to Mr. LONGFELLOW's reputation as a poet."" Thomas Conrad Porter, a professor at Franklin and Marshall College, believed that Longfellow had been inspired by more than the metrics of the ""Kalevala."" He claimed ""The Song of Hiawatha"" was ""Plagiarism"" in the ""Washington National Intelligencer"" of November 27, 1855. Longfellow wrote to his friend Charles Sumner a few days later: ""As to having 'taken many of the most striking incidents of the Finnish"
"Twin Cities Hiawatha The Twin Cities Hiawatha, often just Hiawatha, was a named passenger train operated by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (also known as the Milwaukee Road), and traveled from Chicago to the Twin Cities. The original train takes its name from the epic poem ""The Song of Hiawatha"" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. There are a number of Hiawatha-themed names within the city of Minneapolis, the terminus of the original train. The first ""Hiawatha"" ran in 1935; in 1939 the Milwaukee Road introduced a second daily trip between Chicago and Minneapolis. The two trains were known"
"the East Lake Community Library building are located in this neighborhood. Longfellow (neighborhood), Minneapolis Longfellow is a neighborhood within the larger Longfellow community in Minneapolis, United States. It is bounded by Seward to the North, Cooper to the East, Howe to the South, and Corcoran and East Phillips to the West. It was named after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who wrote The Song of Hiawatha. It is populated by a diverse, predominantly middle-class (working class) population. More expensive homes are located closer to the river, and almost all of the housing stock is composed of Sears Modern Homes in the Bungalow"