{"product_id":"the-song-of-hiawatha-the-1855-epic-poem-paperback","title":"The Song of Hiawatha: The 1855 Epic Poem - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHenry W. Longfellow\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Song of Hiawatha\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 1855 Epic Poem\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHenry W. Longfellow\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Song of Hiawatha is an 1855 epic poem, in trochaic tetrameter, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, featuring a Native American hero. Longfellow's sources for the legends and ethnography found in his poem were the Ojibwe Chief Kahge-ga-gah-bowh during his visits at Longfellow's home; Black Hawk and other Sac and Fox Indians Longfellow encountered on Boston Common; Algic Researches (1839) and additional writings by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, an ethnographer and United States Indian agent; and Heckewelder's Narratives. In sentiment, scope, overall conception, and many particulars, Longfellow's poem is a work of American Romantic literature, not a representation of Native American oral tradition. Longfellow insisted, \"I can give chapter and verse for these legends. Their chief value is that they are Indian legends.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLongfellow had originally planned on following Schoolcraft in calling his hero Manabozho, the name in use at the time among the Ojibwe\/Anishinaabe of the south shore of Lake Superior for a figure of their folklore, a trickster-transformer. But in his journal entry for June 28, 1854, he wrote, \"Work at 'Manabozho;' or, as I think I shall call it, 'Hiawatha'--that being another name for the same personage.\" Hiawatha was not \"another name for the same personage\" (the mistaken identification of the trickster figure was made first by Schoolcraft and compounded by Longfellow), but a probable historical figure associated with the founding of the League of the Iroquois, the Five Nations then located in present-day New York and Pennsylvania. Because of the poem, however, \"Hiawatha\" became the namesake for towns, schools, trains and a telephone company in the western Great Lakes region, where no Iroquois nations historically resided.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.64 x 10 x 7.99 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 31, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51803580989728,"sku":"9781522996163","price":17.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/148a42231b4d9898e27822250619d930.webp?v=1780884938","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-song-of-hiawatha-the-1855-epic-poem-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}