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Book The Myth of Hiawatha  and Other Oral Legends  Dodo Press

Download or read book The Myth of Hiawatha and Other Oral Legends Dodo Press written by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft and published by . This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793-1864) was an American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist, noted for his early studies of Native American cultures, as well as for his "discovery" in 1832 of the source of the Mississippi River. His wife's knowledge on Native American legends shared with Schoolcraft formed in part the source material for Longfellow's epic poem, The Song of Hiawatha. Schoolcraft began his ethnological research in 1822 during his appointment as Indian agent at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. He wedded Jane Johnston, who was the daughter of an Irish fur trader and an Ojibwe woman. From his wife, he learned the Ojibwe language and the lore of the tribe. In 1841 he lost his position as Indian agent and moved back to the East, where he continued to write about Native Americans.

Book The Myth of Hiawatha

Download or read book The Myth of Hiawatha written by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Myth of Hiawatha  and Other Oral Legends  Mythologic and Allegoric  of the North American Indians

Download or read book The Myth of Hiawatha and Other Oral Legends Mythologic and Allegoric of the North American Indians written by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-17 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians By Henry Rowe, Schoolcraft,

Book The Myth of Hiawatha and Other Oral Legends Mythologic and Allegoric of the North American Indians

Download or read book The Myth of Hiawatha and Other Oral Legends Mythologic and Allegoric of the North American Indians written by Henry R Schoolcraft and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Excerpt: It is a deity whom he destroys, a sort of Typhon or Ahriman in the system. It is immediately found, on going to his lodge, that it is a man, a hero, a chief, who is sick, and he must be cured by simples and magic songs like the rest of the Indians. He is surrounded with Indian doctors, who sing magic songs. He has all the powers of a deity, and, when he dies, the land is subjected to a flood; from which Hiawatha alone escapes. This play between the zoonic and mortal shapes of heroes must constantly be observed, in high as well as in ordinary characters. To have the name of an animal, or bird, or reptile, is to have his powers. When Pena runs, on a wager of life, with the Great Sorcerer, he changes himself sometimes into a partridge, and sometimes into a wolf, to outrun him.The Indian's necessities of language at all times require personifications and linguistic creations. He cannot talk on abstract topics without them. Myths and spiritual agencies are constantly required. The ordinary domestic life ofRead More

Book The Myth of Hiawatha  and Other Oral Legends  Mythologic and Allegoric  of the North American Indians

Download or read book The Myth of Hiawatha and Other Oral Legends Mythologic and Allegoric of the North American Indians written by Henry R Schoolcraft and published by . This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Excerpt: ...It is a deity whom he destroys, a sort of Typhon or Ahriman in the system. It is immediately found, on going to his lodge, that it is a man, a hero, a chief, who is sick, and he must be cured by simples and magic songs like the rest of the Indians. He is surrounded with Indian doctors, who sing magic songs. He has all the powers of a deity, and, when he dies, the land is subjected to a flood; from which Hiawatha alone escapes. This play between the zoonic and mortal shapes of heroes must constantly be observed, in high as well as in ordinary characters. To have the name of an animal, or bird, or reptile, is to have his powers. When Pena runs, on a wager of life, with the Great Sorcerer, he changes himself sometimes into a partridge, and sometimes into a wolf, to outrun him.The Indian's necessities of language at all times require personifications and linguistic creations. He cannot talk on abstract topics without them. Myths and spiritual agencies are constantly required. The ordinary domestic life ofClose...

Book MYTH OF HIAWATHA

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  • Author : Henry Rowe 1793-1864 Schoolcraft
  • Publisher : Wentworth Press
  • Release : 2016-08-27
  • ISBN : 9781371298647
  • Pages : 358 pages

Download or read book MYTH OF HIAWATHA written by Henry Rowe 1793-1864 Schoolcraft and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The Myth of Hiawatha

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  • Author : Henry R. Schoolcraft
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2016-10-12
  • ISBN : 9781539482222
  • Pages : 146 pages

Download or read book The Myth of Hiawatha written by Henry R. Schoolcraft and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-12 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (March 28, 1793 - December 10, 1864) was an American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist, noted for his early studies of Native American cultures, as well as for his 1832 expedition to the source of the Mississippi River. He is also noted for his major six-volume study of American Indians in the 1850s. He served as a United States Indian agent for a period beginning in 1822 in Michigan, where he married Jane Johnston, mixed-race daughter of a prominent Scotch-Irish fur trader and Ojibwa mother, herself a daughter of Ojibwa war chief Waubojeeg. She taught him the Ojibwe language and much about her maternal culture. They had several children, two of whom survived past childhood. She is now recognized as the first Native American literary writer in the United States. In 1846 the widower Schoolcraft was commissioned by Congress for a major study, known as Indian Tribes of the United States, which was published in six volumes from 1851 to 1857. He married again in 1847, to Mary Howard, from a slaveholding family in South Carolina. In 1860 she published the bestselling The Black Gauntlet, an anti-Uncle Tom's Cabin novel.

Book The Myth of Hiawatha  and Other Oral Legends  Mythologic and Allegoric  of the North American Indians

Download or read book The Myth of Hiawatha and Other Oral Legends Mythologic and Allegoric of the North American Indians written by Henry R. Schoolcraft and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hiawatha

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  • Author : Henry Schoolcraft
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015-10-22
  • ISBN : 9781518725548
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Hiawatha written by Henry Schoolcraft and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incredible first-hand record of Native American myths and legends, collected during the exploration and studies of Henry R. Schoolcraft.TO PROF. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.SIR:-Permit me to dedicate to you, this volume of Indian myths and legends, derived from the story-telling circle of the native wigwams. That they indicate the possession, by the Vesperic tribes, of mental resources of a very characteristic kind-furnishing, in fact, a new point from which to judge the race, and to excite intellectual sympathies, you have most felicitously shown in your poem of Hiawatha. Not only so, but you have demonstrated, by this pleasing series of pictures of Indian life, sentiment, and invention, that the theme of the native lore reveals one of the true sources of our literary independence. Greece and Rome, England and Italy, have so long furnished, if they have not exhausted, the field of poetic culture, that it is, at least, refreshing to find both in theme and metre, something new.Very truly yours,HENRY R. SCHOOLCRAFT.

Book The Myth of Hiawatha and Other Stories of the North American Indians

Download or read book The Myth of Hiawatha and Other Stories of the North American Indians written by Henry Schoolcraft and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-22 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Myth of Hiawatha is a collection of Native American myths and legends collected and edited by Henry Schoolcraft. This book is one of the most authentic collections of Indian myths because Schoolcraft faithfully recored every world of storytellers. He presents this collection as transcripts of the thought and invention of the aboriginal mind with the intention to bring closer Native American culture and tradition to a common reader.

Book The Myth of Hiawatha

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  • Author : Henry R. Schoolcraft
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2011-05-02
  • ISBN : 9781456598471
  • Pages : 294 pages

Download or read book The Myth of Hiawatha written by Henry R. Schoolcraft and published by . This book was released on 2011-05-02 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is but one consideration of much moment necessary to be premised respecting these legends and myths. It is this: they are versions of oral relations from the lips of the Indians, and are transcripts of the thought and invention of the aboriginal mind. As such, they furnish illustrations of Indian character and opinions on subjects which the ever-cautious and suspicious minds of this people have, heretofore, concealed. They place the man altogether in a new phasis. They reflect him as he is. They show us what he believes, hopes, fears, wishes, expects, worships, lives for, dies for. They are always true to the Indian manners and customs, opinions and theories. They never rise above them; they never sink below them. Placing him in almost every possible position, as a hunter, a warrior, a magician, a pow-wow, a medicine man, a meda, a husband, a father, a friend, a foe, a stranger, a wild singer of songs to monedos or fetishes, a trembler in terror of demons and wood genii, and of ghosts, witches, and sorcerers-now in the enjoyment of plenty in feasts-now pale and weak with abstinence in fasts; now transforming beasts and birds, or plants and trees into men, or men into beasts by necromancy; it is impossible not to perceive what he perpetually thinks, believes, and feels. The very language of the man is employed, and his vocabulary is not enlarged by words and phrases foreign to it. Other sources of information depict his exterior habits and outer garb and deportment; but in these legends and myths, we perceive the interior man, and are made cognizant of the secret workings of his mind, and heart, and soul.

Book The Myth of Hiawath

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  • Author : Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
  • Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
  • Release : 2012-08
  • ISBN : 9781290562959
  • Pages : 364 pages

Download or read book The Myth of Hiawath written by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Book The Myth of Haiwatha

Download or read book The Myth of Haiwatha written by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Smoke of the Gods

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  • Author : Eric Burns
  • Publisher : Temple University Press
  • Release : 2006-10-06
  • ISBN : 9781592134823
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book The Smoke of the Gods written by Eric Burns and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-06 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Spirits of America, an energetic history of tobacco use.

Book Alice s Adventures in Wonderland Decoded

Download or read book Alice s Adventures in Wonderland Decoded written by David Day and published by Doubleday Canada. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This gorgeous 150th anniversary edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is also a revelatory work of scholarship. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland--published 150 years ago in 1865--is a book many of us love and feel we know well. But it turns out we have only scratched the surface. Scholar David Day has spent many years down the rabbit hole of this children's classic and has emerged with a revelatory new view of its contents. What we have here, he brilliantly and persuasively argues, is a complete classical education in coded form--Carroll's gift to his "wonder child" Alice Liddell. In two continuous commentaries, woven around the complete text of the novel for ease of cross-reference on every page, David Day reveals the many layers of teaching, concealed by manipulation of language, that are carried so lightly in the beguiling form of a fairy tale. These layers relate directly to Carroll's interest in philosophy, history, mathematics, classics, poetry, spiritualism and even to his love of music--both sacred and profane. His novel is a memory palace, given to Alice as the great gift of an education. It was delivered in coded form because in that age, it was a gift no girl would be permitted to receive in any other way. Day also shows how a large number of the characters in the book are based on real Victorians. Wonderland, he shows, is a veritable "Who's Who" of Oxford at the height of its power and influence in the Victorian Age. There is so much to be found behind the imaginary characters and creatures that inhabit the pages of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. David Day's warm, witty and brilliantly insightful guide--beautifully designed and stunningly illustrated throughout in full colour--will make you marvel at the book as never before.