Hiawatha (1913 film) Hiawatha (1913 film) Hiawatha is a 1913 American silent drama film directed by Edgar Lewis and based upon Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem "The Song of Hiawatha" (1855). The film stars Jesse Cornplanter of the Seneca people and Soon-goot, a 17-year-old unknown actress. The movie is the first feature film to use a cast of American Indians. The story begins along the Lake Superior Michigan shoreline with the appearance of a mighty spirit that tells the Indians a peacekeeper will bring wisdom and unite the warring tribes. Hiawatha is born to Wenonah and after her death her mother Nokomis raises
Caramuru (epic poem) Correia's wife, Catarina Paraguaçu, as a seer, being able to foresee the Dutch invasions of Brazil. The poem is written in ottava rima (oitava rima in Portuguese). Lines consist of ten syllables and the strophe rhymes according to the pattern abababcc. Here is the first stanza of the poem. The hero "Filho do Trovão" is introduced in it. Caramuru (epic poem) Caramuru is an epic poem written by Brazilian Augustinian friar Santa Rita Durão. It was published in 1781, and it is one of the most famous Indianist works of Brazilian Neoclassicism – the other being Basílio da Gama's "O