The Song of Hiawatha is an 1855 epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that features Native American characters.
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 liter.
Events in the story are set in the Pictured Rocks area on the south shore of Lake Superior.
The epic relates the adventures of an Ojibwe warrior named Hiawatha and the tragedy of his love for Minnehaha.
The Song of Hiawatha is an 1855 epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that features Native American characters