American Background in Longfellow's "The Song of Hiawatha" Page: 5
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after his tribe. The Indian's demand for hunting-ground
conflicts with the claim of Europe's downtrodden millions
that they also have been created heirs of the earth* Mot in
the town, hut rather among bis own yaaple following the ordi-
nary pursuits of life, the chief mnst seek whatever happiness
there is left for him wtth the threat of the encroaching
caravan of gaxons and Celts.
In 1984 Longfellow began ^ork on "The Sang of Hiasyatbe,"
which h^s been regarded as more "redolent of the ^riiaitive soil
of America than anyt^in^ alse i^ our literature.Although
the seed fay a ;?.reat, In6ia& epic had long been in LoB^fel<.ow*s
mind, the interest felt in the red iaan ^as ^roh&bly increased
by two incidents: first, he^.-ftde the aequaintahca of Kah-ge-%a-
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pah-howl'!^ the Ojib^ay chief, end entertained hi^. in his home;
second, one of his Harvard nu^ils returned fron the West, having
spent several months mnon^- the Itmiar.s on the plains, and he
repeated to the poet of the Indian legends, beting that
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they he nmde the subject of a poem,
Longfellow svicertly be^an looking for oaterial suitable
for' carrying out the of '-ir former atudent, for in
June af Ih-.-i .:t-. recorder the genesis of his great American - .
poem in his journal. He wrote-:
J. W. Abe-rnethy, American Literature, B. 264*
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Samuel Longfellow, henry Wadsworth Longfellow, II, 135-170,
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C-* L. Austin, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, p. 338.
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Doty, Fern Marie. American Background in Longfellow's "The Song of Hiawatha", thesis, 1940; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc83348/m1/10/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .