An Art Reel: The Song of Hiawatha. The Song of Hiawatha is an 1855 epic poem in trochaic tetrameter by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow which features Native American characters. This classic work brgons with the lines: "By the shore of Gitche Gumee | By the shining Big-Sea-Water ... The epic relates the fictional adventures of an Ojibwe warrior named Hiawatha and the tragedy of his love for Minnehaha, a Dakota woman. Events in the story are set in the Pictured Rocks area of Michigan on the south shor

Our next concert begins with The Song of Hiawatha by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Conductor Joshua Weilerstein explains how it sounds warm and cinematic. It’s also great fun to play. Available to stream on Marquee TV for free for 7 days from Wednesday. | London Philharmonic Orchestra

Little Hiawatha is a 1937 Silly Symphony short inspired by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem The Song of Hiawatha. It was directed by Dave Hand and animated by Fred Moore, Ollie Johnston, Frank Thomas, Dick Huemer, and Charles Thorson. | Disney History Channel