My late brother-in law, Ernesto, read this poem to me in 1972 as I was preparing to emigrate to the US. He wanted me to know something about Minnesota since I did not know a soul there when I matched to train in OB-Gyn at the University of Minnesota. It is a heartwarming story with a wonderful rhyme & rhythm to it. When I felt lonely in my first days there, I always laughed when I hear the name Minnehaha. You see, in Tagalog, "haha" is laughter so I felt less alone. I would rewind my medical dictations, close my eyes and pretend my sister was talking to me long distance. We sounded alike on the telephone. Hiawatha's good heart and wisdom reassured me that I was going to a place where the people were warm and friendly. I had a wonderful 10 years stay in MN and still have fond memories re-awakened by listening to this beautiful recitation of The Song of Hiawatha.
As someone from Wisconsin this touched me. Midwesterners are great. Though Longfellow didn't say Minnesota comes from the Chippawa statement which translate as "we will never win a Superbowl"
My primary school teacher Rosemary Orpen passed away yesterday on my 60th birthday which is on the 24 July. In a small, cramped school room in a small Orange Free State town, Ladybrand in 1969 Rosemary Orpen taught 8 of us this beautiful poem. Some months later she entered us in a local Eisteddfod. We won the Choral verse division to our utmost pride and joy.
When i was little, i read this poem in translation by Ivan Bunin, in russian language. When I grew up and learne to read this in English, I loved it even more. For me personally, Hiawatha is the best work of American poetry. And in this video excellent work of speaker, thanks ❤
My mom read this to me as a child. I cannot express the vivid images I saw as she read these beautiful lines and phrases with such inflection. I was literally there to see the little fireflies and the blossoms of the field flowers in the heavens, the woods, mountains and lakes and all the creatures.
I'm discovering this as an adult. It's a masterfully descriptive tale. The simple meter, to me, evokes heartbeat and plains Indian drumbeat. I was surprised to learn that the form is scandanavian in origin.
My grandfather got a book of Longfellow poems for his High School Graduation in 1914. I have that book now,and was amazed at how many Longfellow poems I knew. I was also amazed at how long the Song of Hiawatha really was. Many never go beyond the middle of stanza three.("By the shores of Gitche-Gumee-")I recently read Hiawatha in it's entirity and was fascinated at how much it told of the Native American Indian lifestyle.
Liked this movie a lot. It was extremely refreshing to see native peoples acting in the various roles, and speaking (I assume, since I don’t understand any native peoples languages.) their native tongue. The switching from native language being translated, as it should have been, and the use of English, necessary for English-speaking people to understand the movie, was done smoothly and gracefully. Another plus for this movie! The acting, storyline and cinematography were wonderful.
I tease my husband cause Longfellow and Schoolcraft are the good of the Dutch bloods, we loved the Ojibwe so much we Dutch followed them West to MI and WI from, NY. Now he's stuck with me. This popped up again in feed. In the tree must be a spirit thing.
Majestic, wonderful, Sublime, both the poetry and the narration, play a piano music in the background and listen to his wonderful work - Thank you for the production
My aunt Myrt read me a much-shortened child's version, well illustrated with period pictures.. Always remembered the part where Hiawatha caught the great sturgeon Nahma, was swallowed and then killed the giant fish by beating the great fishes heart to death. One of many mythic tales of a Hero journeying into the Underworld- death- and re-emerging alive after a period of days.
Its strange, but like The Bible it weaves the timeless tale of men's Paradise Lost, of The Ancient Mariner, of The Creation Dances of Canadian Coastal First Nations People, of Norse Sagas.....but SO many excellent allegories of nature. Makes English language seem beautiful and romantic. Ah....literature. If our tongues but could speak or sing the longings of the heart.....how far man comes from nature, only to have cravings to be whole---again. It makes me reflect on some works of Jacob Bohem. The main influence on William Blake. Romanticism at its best. One day, when mankind surveys other worlds and populates other worlds, shall those future humans still yearn.....
I would like to see the actual lyrics of the rest of this song... On the bank of the the river Stood a mighty Indian Brave On the other side of the river stood a lovely Indian maid Li
What is that picture in the video? That's beautiful! I want to set that as my desktop background. Can anyone tell me who painted it or what it's called?
I listened to a little of this, and I found it to be quite good. Unfortunately, some of the meter is lost in transition between American and English accents- for example, an American pronounces wigwam as "Wig-waam", with a soft A. This scans as a trochee, and fits into Longfellow's meter flawlessly. The English "Wig-wehm" comes off more spondaic. It's a minor complaint, and a negligible loss in the otherwise stunning reading of Longfellow's epic.
I think it' strange how the English pronounce the letter A in certain cases. If saying the word " rather " for example , they'll pronounce the A like aahh ... but it irks me what they do to words that are originally foreign that have the letter A... everyone else on the planet knows how to pronounce the word pasta ( aahh ) they pronounce it as if they are saying the word cat . And that is why they pronounce wigwam in a way that sounds weird because they do this to EVERY FOREIGN word with the letter A... no matter what it is.... it just drives me crazy ; to me it doesn't make sense.... because THEY HAVE ALREADY BEEN TOLD HOW THE WORD IS PRONOUNCED : WIG WAAHHM... but do English say it that way ? Of course not !
gardensofthegods ah now there you’re wrong, the English have a bunch of different accents and if I remember rightly Peter Yearsley is A Yorkshireman, an accent where A’s are short and not pronounced like warm in wig-waam but more like wam as in Wham
@@mellowfellow4755 I guess what I'm trying to say is why is it when they are sometimes pronouncing a foreign word such as pasta or wigwam , do they not pronounce it the way the indigenous people of those countries pronounce it . Pasta , as in ah , not apple .
@@gardensofthegods Italians from Italy and in fact almost everyone who speaks a Romantic language pronounce pasta with an a sounding like Peter Yearsley's wigwam, just like they do in "Parmiggiano", rather than saying it to rhyme with Farmer John like they do in some US accents
Toiled and suffered to help his own move forward. I hear the vitality of Nature. By Law of Nature not of the Jungle. The Law makes Peace for it's people to move forward. Brian A Koller
Tried to look up sparknotes for this and all I found was a shmoop article with a disgustingly PC agenda. I couldn't get passed the intro. It was full of weasel language too when it referenced the outrage culture, which it did 5 times before I stopped reading. Anyone know of another way I can read some analysis that didn't use reddit as an non-cited source?
Maybe look for Cliff Notes which was around years before SparkNotes was ever introduced ? Maybe even see if the Longfellow Society or any English professors have analyzed it... surely there's got to be a place that doesn't have politically correct agenda on this .
George Givens I like it. It's the story, not who is pronouncing it. We used to do excerpts of this in grade school. We would make our tom-tom drums out of coffee cans and indian head bonnets from construction paper and sit in a circle while we recited various passages and we would bang our tom-toms. It always brings back memories when read/hear it. *Sigh.... LOL
+Phil V only when they can pronounce things in the correct manner like Michigan is pronounced with the shh sound not the sound ch sound and I can't stress this enough (oh -jib-wa) ojibwa tribe of the five fire nations of the Iroquois that's what Schoolcraft was talking about Hiawatha is a poem about the founding of the five nations from the Great Lakes region
Never had time To ait around reading poetry excepté psalms of David.However m'y Girl Scout leader bas married Mr.Hiltin and off i. Her own world made us at 8 récite Hiawatha song.I waw raised more like an Indian than All those with office jobs.Trust me .most outback woodsmen worked ti feed All those sitting on thé can.reading.Always reading.Always learning everything but thé truth Sad.Read your Holy Bible.Jésus Wasnt à myth made up imiginary lover or héro.Always dad songs.A tear in thé vert song.Somebody's fault.Truth is nobody but YOU Ars responsable for your soul.Book selling Are for profits.90%ste weinnie men writing them.toi lazy To crack à sweat.
I didn't find this "rhythmic" enough and, tbh, thought it rather dry and boring. I also felt some drums in the background would have added some "atmosphere".
My late brother-in law, Ernesto, read this poem to me in 1972 as I was preparing to emigrate to the US. He wanted me to know something about Minnesota since I did not know a soul there when I matched to train in OB-Gyn at the University of Minnesota. It is a heartwarming story with a wonderful rhyme & rhythm to it. When I felt lonely in my first days there, I always laughed when I hear the name Minnehaha. You see, in Tagalog, "haha" is laughter so I felt less alone. I would rewind my medical dictations, close my eyes and pretend my sister was talking to me long distance. We sounded alike on the telephone. Hiawatha's good heart and wisdom reassured me that I was going to a place where the people were warm and friendly. I had a wonderful 10 years stay in MN and still have fond memories re-awakened by listening to this beautiful recitation of The Song of Hiawatha.
As someone from Wisconsin this touched me. Midwesterners are great. Though Longfellow didn't say Minnesota comes from the Chippawa statement which translate as "we will never win a Superbowl"
My primary school teacher Rosemary Orpen passed away yesterday on my 60th birthday which is on the 24 July. In a small, cramped school room in a small Orange Free State town, Ladybrand in 1969 Rosemary Orpen taught 8 of us this beautiful poem. Some months later she entered us in a local Eisteddfod. We won the Choral verse division to our utmost pride and joy.
Oh my goodness I’m seeing this late but still I’m so sorry
What a sweet share.
When i was little, i read this poem in translation by Ivan Bunin, in russian language. When I grew up and learne to read this in English, I loved it even more. For me personally, Hiawatha is the best work of American poetry. And in this video excellent work of speaker, thanks ❤
My mom read this to me as a child. I cannot express the vivid images I saw as she read these beautiful lines and phrases with such inflection. I was literally there to see the little fireflies and the blossoms of the field flowers in the heavens, the woods, mountains and lakes and all the creatures.
I learnt this as a child and read parts of it to my children also. Now it's my grand-daughter's turn to hear me read it to her. Simply beautiful!
Day by day he gazed upon her, day by day he sighed with passion...
25:11
Brillant but fat and lazy
Whatever that means…
lol I think of Danny DeVito
"If you want to get a woman to like you, feed her poetry." - Doc Ock
Here are the starting points for each chapter/section:
00 -- Introduction -- 00:00:00
01 -- The Peace-pipe -- 00:07:27
02 - The Four Winds -- 00:14:30
03 -- Hiawatha's Childhood -- 00:27:21
04 -- Hiawatha and Mudjekeewis -- 00:37:54
05 -- Hiawatha's Fasting -- 00:50:26
06 -- Hiawatha's Friends -- 01:03:14
07 -- Hiawatha's Sailing -- 01:11:14
08 -- Hiawatha's Fishing -- 01:37:38
09 -- Hiawatha and the Pearl-Feather -- 01:27:10
10 -- Hiawatha's Wooing -- 01:40:02
11 -- Hiawatha's Wedding Feast -- 01:52:18
12 -- The Son of the Evening Star -- 02:02:25
13 -- Blessing the Cornfields -- 02:18:59
14 -- Picture-Writing -- 02:29:35
15 -- Hiawatha's Lamentation -- 02:37:38
16 -- Pau_Puk_Keewis -- 02:47:09
17 -- The Hunting of Pau-Puk-Keewis -- 02:57:56
18 -- The Death of Kwasind -- 03:12:55
19 -- The Ghosts -- 03:18:16
20 -- The Famine -- 03:27:34
21 -- The White Man's Foot -- 03:35:40
22 -- Hiawatha's Departure -- 03:45:29
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Thank you so much! You have saved me much frustration as I was trying to play selections to my children
My sister read this to me as a child in the 60s. Happy memories.
This is a lovely thing to read, Im glad you wrote it
My dad read me this when I was a child in the mid 60x , love it
I'm discovering this as an adult. It's a masterfully descriptive tale. The simple meter, to me, evokes heartbeat and plains Indian drumbeat. I was surprised to learn that the form is scandanavian in origin.
My grandfather got a book of Longfellow poems for his High School Graduation in 1914. I have that book now,and was amazed at how many Longfellow poems I knew. I was also amazed at how long the Song of Hiawatha really was. Many never go beyond the middle of stanza three.("By the shores of Gitche-Gumee-")I recently read Hiawatha in it's entirity and was fascinated at how much it told of the Native American Indian lifestyle.
Liked this movie a lot. It was extremely refreshing to see native peoples acting in the various roles, and speaking (I assume, since I don’t understand any native peoples languages.) their native tongue. The switching from native language being translated, as it should have been, and the use of English, necessary for English-speaking people to understand the movie, was done smoothly and gracefully. Another plus for this movie! The acting, storyline and cinematography were wonderful.
Absolutely beautiful, perfect reading! Thank you SO much!
I tease my husband cause Longfellow and Schoolcraft are the good of the Dutch bloods, we loved the Ojibwe so much we Dutch followed them West to MI and WI from, NY. Now he's stuck with me. This popped up again in feed. In the tree must be a spirit thing.
1:24
Thank you for this beautiful reading!
So nice to sit and doodle while listening.
Majestic, wonderful, Sublime, both the poetry and the narration, play a piano music in the background and listen to his wonderful work - Thank you for the production
This is so vivid and tangible, a conjuring of essence....
Such a beautiful work of literature.
I like to listen to this kind of stuff at night to help me sleep. Woke up to the part where the guy becomes a Beaver
I have read Black Elk Speaks several times. I enjoyed listening to the story of Hiawatha and Minnehaha.
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02:40 the beginning of the poem. I made this timecode, as I plan to listen several times while I pain.
Many thanks!
My aunt Myrt read me a much-shortened child's version, well illustrated with period pictures.. Always remembered the part where Hiawatha caught the great sturgeon Nahma, was swallowed and then killed the giant fish by beating the great fishes heart to death. One of many mythic tales of a Hero journeying into the Underworld- death- and re-emerging alive after a period of days.
Great poem and Reader/lector have made his matter well.
02:40 beginning of poem
30:30 by the
2:02:43 part 12
2:19:15 part 13 corn field
2:29:50 part 14
2:40:00
Its strange, but like The Bible it weaves the timeless tale of men's Paradise Lost, of The Ancient Mariner, of The Creation Dances of Canadian Coastal First Nations People, of Norse Sagas.....but SO many excellent allegories of nature. Makes English language seem beautiful and romantic. Ah....literature. If our tongues but could speak or sing the longings of the heart.....how far man comes from nature, only to have cravings to be whole---again. It makes me reflect on some works of Jacob Bohem. The main influence on William Blake. Romanticism at its best. One day, when mankind surveys other worlds and populates other worlds, shall those future humans still yearn.....
"Shook the lodge-poles in his fury" beautiful stuff
home is where the heart is,,, and I'm at home here...
Feed her poetry
This is my ancestors!!! I'm related to showans!!!!
If you want to skip the long drawn out introduction , go 7:45 for the start of the poem.
I've been reading poetry lately
Day by day he gazed upon her, day by day he sighed with passion…
This song Peter said it to Doc Ock
Hiawatha's Childhood - 27:40
Chat the intro is so long but the book it’s self is not bad
There is only one reading that pierces the heart - By Layne Longfellow. On youtube.
I might fall sleep this has no picture but be thankful for the things who have in commen
I would like to see the actual lyrics of the rest of this song...
On the bank of the the
river
Stood a mighty Indian
Brave
On the other side of the river stood a lovely Indian maid
Li
Thank you for this great production. Could you correct the time stamps in the description please? It never goes over 16 minutes. 🌹
Amazing! I am interested!!!🙂❤👍
THE BEST! ! ! !
What is that picture in the video? That's beautiful! I want to set that as my desktop background. Can anyone tell me who painted it or what it's called?
Romancin Hansen It's an American artist, but I can't think of the name.
I finally found it with reverse image search. It's Gosnold at Cuttyhunk by Albert Bierstadt.
@@rhansen80thanks
3:28:00 cold cruel winter!
I am thinking about trying to memorize this poem.
Although I usually agree with Edgar Allan Poe’s critique of Longfellow’s poetry, I like Hiawatha and a few other poems.
I listened to a little of this, and I found it to be quite good. Unfortunately, some of the meter is lost in transition between American and English accents- for example, an American pronounces wigwam as "Wig-waam", with a soft A. This scans as a trochee, and fits into Longfellow's meter flawlessly. The English "Wig-wehm" comes off more spondaic. It's a minor complaint, and a negligible loss in the otherwise stunning reading of Longfellow's epic.
I think it' strange how the English pronounce the letter A in certain cases.
If saying the word
" rather " for example , they'll pronounce the A like aahh ... but it irks me what they do to words that are originally foreign that have the letter A... everyone else on the planet knows how to pronounce the word pasta ( aahh ) they pronounce it as if they are saying the word cat .
And that is why they pronounce wigwam in a way that sounds weird because they do this to EVERY FOREIGN word with the letter A... no matter what it is.... it just drives me crazy ; to me it doesn't make sense.... because THEY HAVE ALREADY BEEN TOLD HOW THE WORD IS PRONOUNCED : WIG WAAHHM... but do English say it that way ? Of course not !
gardensofthegods ah now there you’re wrong, the English have a bunch of different accents and if I remember rightly Peter Yearsley is A Yorkshireman, an accent where A’s are short and not pronounced like warm in wig-waam but more like wam as in Wham
@@mellowfellow4755 I guess what I'm trying to say is why is it when they are sometimes pronouncing a foreign word such as pasta or wigwam , do they not pronounce it the way the indigenous people of those countries pronounce it . Pasta , as in ah , not apple .
@@gardensofthegods Italians from Italy and in fact almost everyone who speaks a Romantic language pronounce pasta with an a sounding like Peter Yearsley's wigwam, just like they do in "Parmiggiano", rather than saying it to rhyme with Farmer John like they do in some US accents
2:52:31
Beautiful reading.
7:34 introduction, done
My Favorite
A lovely reading.
You would know the Indigenous of turtle Island by their heart Longfellow had such honor.
Toiled and suffered to help his own move forward. I hear the vitality of Nature. By Law of Nature not of the Jungle. The Law makes Peace for it's people to move forward. Brian A Koller
@ 30 minutes =the good stuff
Мы когда -то в школе учили отрывки 😂 очень красивая поэма
Little Hiawatha story came from my ancestors and im named after mary showan and this story came from chief mandosking he was a son of a showam
Dauphin River First Nation Canada 🇨🇦
Yes
for "hedgehog" read porcupine ?
I learned this in Girl scouts l
Personal bookmark, ignore this comment. 3:35:55
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25:10
27:21
Glad they stole my identity to a small degree. You can have my relatives too...LOL...
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Tried to look up sparknotes for this and all I found was a shmoop article with a disgustingly PC agenda. I couldn't get passed the intro. It was full of weasel language too when it referenced the outrage culture, which it did 5 times before I stopped reading. Anyone know of another way I can read some analysis that didn't use reddit as an non-cited source?
Maybe look for Cliff Notes which was around years before SparkNotes was ever introduced ? Maybe even see if the Longfellow Society or any English professors have analyzed it... surely there's got to be a place that doesn't have politically correct agenda on this .
I just looked and realized your comment is from almost a year ago and I'm wondering if you found what you were looking for
Shmoop is terrible. They are always going on about "racism" and "strong female characters".
Interestingly enough, Hiawatha has forsaken them
Where is the poem?
It's difficult to get into hearing this read with an English accent. Sorry. If it was Shakespeare, he'd be great.
Saying the British accent is only good for Shakespeare is a bit offensive! We Brits also use the internet you know ;)
All English language literature sounds great with a British accent.
George Givens I like it. It's the story, not who is pronouncing it. We used to do excerpts of this in grade school. We would make our tom-tom drums out of coffee cans and indian head bonnets from construction paper and sit in a circle while we recited various passages and we would bang our tom-toms. It always brings back memories when read/hear it. *Sigh.... LOL
+Phil V only when they can pronounce things in the correct manner like Michigan is pronounced with the shh sound not the sound ch sound and I can't stress this enough (oh -jib-wa) ojibwa tribe of the five fire nations of the Iroquois that's what Schoolcraft was talking about Hiawatha is a poem about the founding of the five nations from the Great Lakes region
@@carolyndobry785 The Ojibwa are not part of the Iroquois Confederacy. The Ojibwa are one of the many Algonquian tribes.
The reader obviously wanted to be somewhere else...rushed through...
ummm the time stamps are wrong :/
2:40
7:31
7:42
7:45
14:26
14:33
Ojibway Tribe
Never had time To ait around reading poetry excepté psalms of David.However m'y Girl Scout leader bas married Mr.Hiltin and off i. Her own world made us at 8 récite Hiawatha song.I waw raised more like an Indian than All those with office jobs.Trust me .most outback woodsmen worked ti feed All those sitting on thé can.reading.Always reading.Always learning everything but thé truth
Sad.Read your Holy Bible.Jésus Wasnt à myth made up imiginary lover or héro.Always dad songs.A tear in thé vert song.Somebody's fault.Truth is nobody but YOU Ars responsable for your soul.Book selling Are for profits.90%ste weinnie men writing them.toi lazy To crack à sweat.
Say again?
I didn't find this "rhythmic" enough and, tbh, thought it rather dry and boring. I also felt some drums in the background would have added some "atmosphere".
Dreadful monotone
this book suck
HE PISSED AS OF YA U;;?
The fuck
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3:53:28
this book suck
this book suck