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Who remembers Hiawatha, I have just popped a video of his Childhood on diddilydeedot. Do go to see the rest as this is only part of it
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Do-Diddily and the Dee - Dot's
Hiawatha (also known as
Ayenwatha, Aiionwatha, or
Haiëñ'wa'tha; Onondaga),
who lived (depending on the version of the story)
in the 1100s, 1400s, or 1500s, and was variously a
leader of the Onondaga and Mohawk nations of Native
Americans.
Hiawatha was a follower of The Great
Peacemaker, a prophet and spiritual leader who was
credited as the founder of the Iroquois
confederacy, (referred to as Haudenosaunee
by the people). If The Great Peacemaker was the man
of ideas, Hiawatha
was the politician who put the plan into practice.
Hiawatha was a
skilled and charismatic orator, and was
instrumental in persuading the Iroquois peoples,
the Seneca's,
Cayuga s,
Onondagas, Oneidas, and Mohawk's,
a group of Native North Americans who shared
similar languages, to
accept The Great Peacemaker's vision and band
together to become the Five Nations of the Iroquois
confederacy. Later, the Tuscarora nation joined the
Confederacy to become the Sixth
Nation
Hiawatha's
Childhood Then the little Hiawatha learned of
every bird its language,
Learned their names and all their
secrets, how they built their nests in
Summer, Where they hid themselves
in Winter, talked with them when e'er he met
them, Called them "Hiawatha's
Chickens."
Of all beasts he learned the language,
learned their names and all their secrets,
How the beavers built their lodges, where the
squirrels hid their acorns,
How the reindeer ran so swiftly, why the rabbit was
so timid,
Talked with them whene'er he met them, Called them
"Hiawatha's Brothers."
Then Iagoo, the great boaster, he the
marvellous story-teller,
He the traveller and the talker, he the friend of
old Nokomis,
Made a bow for Hiawatha; from a branch of ash he
made it,
From an oak-bough made the arrows, tipped with
flint, and winged with feathers,
And the cord he made of deer-skin.
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