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Native Languages of the Americas:
Preserving and promoting American Indian languages
http://www.native-languages.org/
The Song of Hiawatha http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/19
Native American Words in Longfellow's Hiawatha
http://www.native-languages.org/hiawatha.htm
Though Hiawatha is an Iroquois hero, Longfellow's poem is set in Minnesota, and most of the Native American words he uses in it come from the Minnesota Indian languages Ojibwe (Chippewa) and Dakota Sioux. The story Longfellow relates, too, is primarily based not on the Iroquois legend of Hiawatha but rather on the Chippewa legend of Nanabozho, a rabbit spirit who was the son of the west wind and raised by his grandmother.
Music:
Native Languages of the Americas:
Preserving and promoting American Indian languages
http://www.native-languages.org/
The Song of Hiawatha http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/19
Native American Words in Longfellow's Hiawatha
http://www.native-languages.org/hiawatha.htm
Though Hiawatha is an Iroquois hero, Longfellow's poem is set in Minnesota, and most of the Native American words he uses in it come from the Minnesota Indian languages Ojibwe (Chippewa) and Dakota Sioux. The story Longfellow relates, too, is primarily based not on the Iroquois legend of Hiawatha but rather on the Chippewa legend of Nanabozho, a rabbit spirit who was the son of the west wind and raised by his grandmother.
Music:
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