The Song of Hiawatha

The Song of Hiawatha

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Read by: John Stanbridge

Language: English

Length: 3 hours and 27 minutes

Publisher: Audioliterature

Release date: 2017-07-24

"The Song of Hiawatha" (1855) is an epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that features Native American characters.

The epic relates the adventures of an Ojibwe warrior named Hiawatha and the tragedy of his love for Minnehaha. Events in the story are set in the Pictured Rocks area on the south shore of Lake Superior.

Longfellow's poem, though based on native oral traditions surrounding the figure of Manabozho, represents not a work of transmission but an original work of American Romantic literature.