Hiawatha, Kansas Hiawatha, Kansas Hiawatha (Ioway: "Hári Wáta" pronounced ) is the largest city and county seat of Brown County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 3,172. Hiawatha was founded in 1857, making it one of the oldest towns in the state. John M. Coe, John P. Wheller, and Thomas J. Drummond were instrumental in organizing the city, and the site was staked out February 17, 1857. B.L. Rider reportedly was responsible for naming Hiawatha, taking the young Indian's name from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, "The Song of Hiawatha". Hiawatha became the Brown County Seat in
The Iliad or the Poem of Force The Iliad or the Poem of Force "The Iliad, or The Poem of Force" () is a 24-page essay written in 1939 by Simone Weil. The essay is about Homer's epic poem the "Iliad" and contains reflections on the conclusions one can draw from the epic regarding the nature of force in human affairs. Weil's work was first published in 1940 under the title "L'Iliade ou le poème de la force" in "Les Cahiers du Sud". "Cahiers" has been described as the only significant literary magazine available in the French free zone when the essay was first released. The first