Word: hiawatha
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Earliest was the 16th century's Hiawatha, who was not a Chippewa (as Longfellow's poem has it) but a member of one of the five Iroquoian tribes (either a Mohawk or an Onondagan). A cannibal like all Iroquois at that time, he became a mystic and prophet who united the five tribes into a single confederation. Then there was the Wampanoags' King Philip, who fought the Puritan colonists in the 1600s while his warriors defected or died around him, and who himself was killed defending his lands. The obscure Pueblo medicine...
...SONG OF HIAWATHA (Pipestone, Minn.), an even more expansive redskin opera, has a stage more than a quarter of a mile wide with lighting that can pinpoint one face in the darkness or illuminate an acre of land. The hybrid Longfellow narrative comes out of loudspeakers while the actors pantomime, but even without dialogue, the leading role is so strenuous that fresh Hiawathas are sent in like substitute halfbacks to spell the panting starter. Their hero slays the "wary roebuck," sears the wild West Wind, hunts down "monsters and magicians," wendigoes and kenabeeks. Skillfully J-stroking his canoe back...
...prestige, ended with a barely disguised appeal for Dick Nixon's election: "I hope most of you will come to the inauguration to see the next man inaugurated as President-the man of our choice." Ike then flew off to dedicate the new $3,200,000 Hiawatha Interstate Bridge at Red Wing, Minn., looked in briefly at the still-building Eisenhower Library at Abilene, Kans...
Thrusting out of the Midwest into four of the five Great Lakes, Michigan is a self-contained empire. Imperially big, rich and varied, it is the land where Hiawatha played, where the French voyageurs sailed even before the Plymouth colony was founded, where conservative Germans settled on the smiling farmlands of the fertile south, and the Scandinavian Paul Bunyans came to cut the timber and mine the ore of the rugged north. It was here that Henry Ford, messiah of the machine, swung the U.S. mass-production revolution on his assembly lines and broke the bonds of the workingman...
Longfellow's little Hiawatha loved fireflies. So do today's kids. So, in a professional sense, do many scientists, who recognize the firefly's light as a love call-but are both baffled and fascinated by its heatless, chemically generated properties. As of last week a chemical company, Schwartz Bio-Research Inc. of Mount Vernon,N.Y.,had found a happy way of 1) letting children turn their firefly chasing to profit, 2) putting firefly tails to practical human use, and 3) offering hope that science may soon solve the longstanding puzzle of the little white-fire insect...