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Lydia Sigourney was inspired by the book to write a similar epic poem on Pocahontas, though she never completed it. [31] English writer George Eliot called The Song of Hiawatha, along with Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 book The Scarlet Letter, the "two most indigenous and masterly productions in American literature". [32]
Pocahontas (US: / ˌ p oʊ k ə ˈ h ɒ n t ə s /, UK: / ˌ p ɒ k-/; born Amonute, [1] also known as Matoaka and Rebecca Rolfe; c. 1596 – March 1617) was a Native American woman belonging to the Powhatan people, notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia.
In her 2005 essay "Malintzin, Pocahontas, and Krotoa: Indigenous Women and Myth Models of the Atlantic World", Professor Pamela Scully compared Krotoa to Malintzin and Pocahontas, two other women of the same time period that were born in different areas of the world (Malintzin in Mesoamerica, Pocahontas in colonial Virginia). [21]
Minnehaha is a Native American woman documented in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1855 epic poem The Song of Hiawatha. She is the lover of the titular protagonist Hiawatha and comes to a tragic end. The name, often said to mean "laughing water", literally translates to "waterfall" or "rapid water" in Dakota. [1]
Paula Gunn Allen (October 24, 1939 – May 29, 2008) was an American poet, literary critic, activist, [1] professor, and novelist.Of mixed-race European-American, Arab-American, and Native American descent, she identified with her mother's people, the Laguna Pueblo. [2]
"Fire Woman Warrior" is a sculpture of Keziah Powhatan. [11] "Pocahontas Unmasked" is a print of a distant maternal cousin. [12] This print is Powhatan's interpretation of an unmasked English version of Pocahontas. [5] It is based off of John White's watercolors based on the Amerindian phenotype from 1585. [13]
Young may have been inspired to write the song after reading Hart Crane's 1930 poem The Bridge, which Young read in London in 1971. [3] The seventeenth-century Indigenous heroine Matoaka (white name, Pocahontas) is a central character in The Bridge. [3] Commentators over the years have noted the song's similarity to Carole King's "He's a Bad ...
Poems (1827) Evening Readings In History (1833) Letters to Young Ladies (1833), one of her best-known books; Sketches (1834) Poems (1834) Zinzendorff, and Other Poems (1836) Poetry for Children (1836) Olive Buds (1836) Letters to Mothers (1838), republished in London; Pocahontas, and Other Poems (1841) New York. Pocahontas, and Other Poems ...