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Hiawatha is a 1952 American Western film based on the 1855 epic poem The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, centering on Native Americans in pre-Columbian times. . Directed by Kurt Neumann, with stars Vincent Edwards and Yvette Dugay, it became the final feature produced by the low-budget Monogram Pictures, a mainstay of Hollywood's Poverty R
Hiawatha, the Messiah of the Ojibway is a 1903 dramatic short film shot in Canada directed by the American pioneering cinematographer and director Joseph Rosenthal, based on the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's famous poem, The Song of Hiawatha, made in Desbarats, Ontario, with a cast of Ojibway First Nations people.
Nokomis is the name of Nanabozho's grandmother in the Ojibwe traditional stories and was the name of Hiawatha's grandmother in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, The Song of Hiawatha, which is a re-telling of the Nanabozho stories. Nokomis is an important character in the poem, mentioned in the familiar lines:
The Song of Hiawatha (Coleridge-Taylor), a trilogy of cantatas by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, based on Longfellow's poem; the first part Hiawatha's Wedding Feast is the best known; Little Hiawatha (a.k.a. Hiawatha), a 1937 animated family comedy short film produced by Walt Disney as part of 1937's Silly Symphonies
Minnehaha Avenue and Hiawatha Avenue run parallel to each other from downtown Minneapolis, while another Minnehaha Avenue runs through Saint Paul. In Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada, the enchanting Minnehaha Falls and the adjacent Hiawatha Highlands beautifully commemorate her and her lover, creating a poetic tribute in close proximity.
Although other silent versions of Hiawatha existed before 1913, Moore's film was the first to use a cast of Native American actors. [3] In 1909, Carl Laemmle, who founded Independent Moving Pictures (later absorbed into Universal Studios) had released an earlier one-reel version of Hiawatha. Years later Laemmle acknowledged that his "white cast ...
The Hiawatha Belt is a wampum belt that symbolizes peace between the original five nations of the Iroquois. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] The belt depicts the nations in a specific order from left to right. The Seneca are furthest to the left, representing their position as Keepers of the Western Door.