Discordant Notes: Longfellow's Song of Hiawatha, Community, Race, and Performance Politics

From: The Journal of American Culture | Date: December 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

On the Mountains of the Prairie,

On the great Red Pipe-stone Quarry,

Gitche Manito, the mighty,

He the Master of Life, descending,

On the red crags of the quarry

Stood erect, and called the nations,

Called the tribes of men together.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,

The Song of Hiawatha

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