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The Song of Hiawatha

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The Song of Hiawatha is an 1855 Epic Poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. One of the most famous works of poetry of the early United States, it is a very loose retelling of Ojibwe mythology mostly centering around the culture hero Nanabozho, here referred to as Hiawatha.
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Know-Nothing Know-It-All
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Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Iagoo claims he's played lots of gambling games and can even give Pau-Puk-Keewis lessons on Bowls and Counters, which Pau-Puk-Keewis invented. Instead, Pau-Puk-Keewis thoroughly fleeces him and all his guests.
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Pau-Puk-Keewis is introduced as a "merry mischief-maker" who dances at Hiawatha and Minnehaha's wedding. The next time he shows up, his actions become a spiral of jerkassery, starting with rudely interrupting one of Iagoo's stories and ending with trashing Nokomis' house and slaughtering a bunch of birds for no reason.
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The Münchausen
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The Münchausen: "Iagoo, the great boaster" constantly makes up adventures because he's jealous of the attention other people get. The Ojibways like him because he's a good storyteller, even if they know most of what he's saying is lies.
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Imaginary Love Triangle: Shawondasee the South-Wind falls in love with a yellow-haired girl he sees on the plain, but he's too lazy to approach her until he sees her hair turn white and concludes that Kabibonokka the North-Wind has wooed her instead. It's all in his head because the "girl" is just a dandelion.
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Adaptational Heroism: In Ojibwe legend, Nanabozho is a Trickster Archetype who is frequently motivated for his own benefit and is a "hero" in the old mythological sense, a doer of extraordinary deeds. Here, Hiawatha is a prophet sent by Gitche Manito to teach people peace and brotherhood, who thinks primarily of helping others, and has hardly a mean bone in his body.
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You Are the Translated Foreign Word
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You Are the Translated Foreign Word: When Gitche Gumee is mentioned, it's usually followed with the same sentence except with "Gitche Gumee" replaced by "Big-Sea-Water" (a loose translation — generally "Great Sea" is preferred). The same is usually done with animals; when one is mentioned, its Ojibway name either precedes or follows (e.g. "Chetowaik, the plover" or "the heron, the Shuh-shuh-gah").
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Artistic License – History: By way of Misplaced Wildlife — dandelions and chickens are referenced in North America before the arrival of European settlers who actually introduced them.
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Super-Speed: When he reaches adulthood, Hiawatha is able to shoot an arrow and outrun it while it's still flying.
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World's Strongest Man
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World's Strongest Man: Kwasind, "the strongest of all mortals," can toss tree trunks singlehanded and can't draw a bow or wring out a fishing net without destroying them.
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Sacred Hospitality: At Hiawatha and Minnehaha's wedding, they and Nokomis only wait on the guests rather than eat anything themselves. In canto XIX, Nokomis' home is visited by two haggard strangers who do nothing but sit silently in the corner and eat all the best parts of the meals which Hiawatha intended for Minnehaha. Neither Minnehaha, nor Hiawatha, nor Nokomis object to this. In perhaps Homeric fashion, they don't even ask who the guests are. This goes on for days.
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Riding into the Sunset
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Riding into the Sunset: The ending has Hiawatha paddling his canoe into the sunset across Gitche Gumee.
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Altar Diplomacy: Hiawatha chooses a wife from the Dacotahs in an attempt to improve relations between them and the Ojibways.
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Crying Wolf: Iagoo is such a liar that no one believes his story about a giant winged canoe spitting thunder and bearing pale-faced people with hairy chins, until Hiawatha agrees with him. Of course, he's talking about the arrival of white settlers.
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Kwasind is only vulnerable to being hit on the head, and then only with pinecones.
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Heroic Lineage: Hiawatha is the son of Mudjekeewis, a warrior who stole the wampum belt from the Great Bear's neck and in reward became the Anthropomorphic Personification of the West-Wind.
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Anaphora: The poem makes frequent use of this, most memorably:
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Stellification: Wabun the East-Wind turns his human lover into a star so they can be together in the sky; she's thereafter called Wabun-Annung, Star of Morning.
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Fiendish Fish: In canto VIII Hiawatha (joined for the time being by a squirrel companion) faces down the gigantic sturgeon Mishe-Nahma, king of fishes, who's big enough to swallow him and his canoe whole.
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Weaksauce Weakness: When they first meet, Hiawatha and Mudjekeewis ask each other if there is anything that can harm the other. Mudjekeewis answers a large black rock called Wawbeek and Hiawatha answers a bulrush. Both of them, of course, are lying. Kwasind is only vulnerable to being hit on the head, and then only with pinecones.
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Getting Eaten Is Harmless: After being swallowed by Mishe-Nahma, Hiawatha kills the sturgeon from inside, and both he and the squirrel survive long enough to escape once scavenging seagulls have eaten holes in the carcass.
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Show Within a Show: The narrative about events in the story's present pauses several times while Iagoo tells stories of his own.
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True Companions: Hiawatha's two best friends are Chibiabos the singer and Kwasind the strong man; the three of them are always at work on ways to improve the Ojibways' lot.
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Depraved Dwarf: The Puk-wudjies seem like standard Little People until they decide to murder Kwasind for no reason other than that he's scary to them.
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Strong Family Resemblance: When Mudjekeewis first sees Hiawatha, he thinks the young man looks like Wenonah risen from the grave.
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The Old North Wind
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The Old North Wind: The four winds are personified as nature spirits, with Kabibonokka the North-Wind being a "fierce" man with "snow-besprinkled" hair, but who is ultimately beaten by a strong human wrestler. The actual strongest of the four is Mudjekeewis, the West-Wind.
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Shout-Out: The poem borrows quite a bit from The Kalevala, including its use of trochaic meter and being centered around a culture hero who leaves his people when Christianity arrives, promising to return in the future.
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Messianic Archetype: Hiawatha is certainly close to if not a full-on messianic archetype, being personally sent by Gitche Manito to toil and suffer for the aid of his people, departing directly to the Hereafter at the end and implying that he'll return some day.
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Winter of Starvation
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Winter of Starvation: Canto XX is titled "The Famine" and follows the characters' plight during a long, harsh winter when game becomes scarce. It ends with Minnehaha dying of starvation and sickness.
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Composite Character: In Ojibwe mythology, Nanabozho's father is E-bangishimog, the West Wind, who is also the father of Majiikiwis, a spirit associated with bears. In The Song of Hiawatha, E-bangishimog and Majiikiwis are combined into Mudjekeewis, who is the West-Wind, Hiawatha's (Nanabozho's) father and also associated with bears.
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Calling the Old Man Out: Early on, Hiawatha attacks his father Mudjekeewis in revenge for Mudjekeewis having abandoned his mother Wenonah to die of loneliness.
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Quick Draw: One of Hiawatha's showier feats is to shoot 10 arrows straight up one at a time, loosing the last one before the first one hits the ground.
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Censor Shadow: In-universe — when Minnehaha blesses the cornfields by running naked around them at night, the darkness literally wraps around her so no one will see her.
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Dwindling Party: The final cantos detail the deaths of three of the four people Hiawatha is closest to. Lastly, Hiawatha himself departs, leaving only the elderly Nokomis still present out of the main characters.
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Abstract Apotheosis: Mudjekeewis begins as a mortal warrior and becomes the West-Wind. He states that Hiawatha will likewise become the Northwest-Wind upon his death.
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But Now I Must Go
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But Now I Must Go: At the end of the poem, Hiawatha bids the Ojibways farewell and sets off alone in his canoe across Gitche Gumee, saying that it will be many ages before he returns.
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His Name Really Is "Barkeep"
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His Name Really Is "Barkeep": Nokomis means "my Grandmother," but she's called this from her first appearance, before she even has a child, let alone a grandchild, and it seems to be her actual name.
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Anthropomorphic Personification
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Anthropomorphic Personification: Aside from the four winds, one canto details the end of a particularly long and brutal winter in the form of a meeting between a young man (spring) and an old man (winter) that ends with the old man shrinking and vanishing.
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