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Discordant Notes: Longfellow's Song of Hiawatha, Community, Race, and Performance Politics
From: The Journal of American Culture
Date: 20041201
Author:Gaul, Theresa Strouth
On the Mountains of the Prairie,
On the great Red Pipe-stone Quarry,
Gitche Manito, the mighty,
He the Master of Life, descending,
On the red crags of the quarry
Stood erect, and called the nations,
Called the tribes of men together.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
The Song of Hiawatha
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