American Literature
clashes between the European settlers and the Native Americans, Cooper creates some acculturated natives and whites, who enter a middle
ground between the conflicting cultures and, while retaining their own cultural identities, appropriate the best elements of each other's culture.
The Song of Hiawatha is an 1855 epic poem, in trochaic tetrameter, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, featuring an Indian hero. It is loosely based
on the legends and ethnography of the Ojibwe (Chippewa, Anishinaabeg) and other Native American peoples as contained in Algic Researches
(1839) and additional writings by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, an ethnographer and United States Indian agent. In sentiment, scope, overall conception,
and many particulars, Longfellow's poem is very much a work of American Romantic literature, not a representation of Native American oral
tradition. Longfellow insisted, "I can give chapter and verse for these legends
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