Ojibwe of the key trade languages of the Great Lakes and the northern Great Plains. The popularity of the epic poem "The Song of Hiawatha", written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1855, publicized the Ojibwe culture. The epic contains many toponyms that originate from Ojibwe words. According to Ojibwe oral history and from recordings in birch bark scrolls, the Ojibwe originated from the mouth of the St. Lawrence River on the Atlantic coast of what is now Quebec. They traded widely across the continent for thousands of years as they migrated, and knew of the canoe routes to move north, west
Hunkar (epic poem) Brahmaputra<br>" "Ganga and Yamuna - the nectar-swept streams<br>" "That flow to the blessed land<br>" "Are abundant with your melting compassion.<br>" "At the gates of that land,<br>" "You, the guardian of its borders,<br>" "Have challenged, 'You must cut off my head<br>" "Before you can trample over this land.<br>" "O pious sage, a great misfortune has fallen today<br>" "On that same land of piety!<br>" "Afflicted, the children are writhing<br>" "Bitten by countless snakes from four directions.<br>" "My king of mountains! My magnificent one!<br>" Hunkar (epic poem) Hunkar is an epic poem by Rashtrakavi Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar'. "Himalaya" is from the collection "Hunkar"