Hiawatha / Hereafter: Re-appropriating Longfellow’s Epic in Northern Ontario

• Main Author: Stewart, Fenn Elan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Johns Hopkins University Press 2014
• Subjects: Hiawatha; Canada; cultural appropriation; colonialism; decolonization; Indian; Pacific; Rowe; anishina*; First Nations
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/ariel/article/view/35529

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Song of Hiawatha has long been a hugely influential piece of literature, north as well as south of the border. While its narrative and characters have often been evoked in settler constructions of “wilderness,” the text has also signified in very different ways for Indig...