The Song of Hiawatha The Song of Hiawatha The Song of Hiawatha is an 1855 epic poem in trochaic tetrameter by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that features Native American characters. The epic relates the fictional adventures of an Ojibwe warrior named Hiawatha and the tragedy of his love for Minnehaha, a Dakota woman. Events in the story are set in the Pictured Rocks area on the south shore of Lake Superior. Longfellow's poem, though based on native oral traditions surrounding the figure of Manabozho, represents not a work of transmission but an original work of American Romantic literature. Longfellow's sources for the legends and ethnography
Winona, Kansas Winona, Kansas Winona is a city in Logan County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 162. Winona was originally known as Gopher, and under the latter name was founded in 1884. It was renamed Winona in 1887. The community is named after the character Wenonah, the mother of Hiawatha in Longfellow's epic poem "The Song of Hiawatha" (1855). Winona is located at (39.061639, -101.244995). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Winona has a semi-arid