Little Hiawatha Little Hiawatha Little Hiawatha (also called Hiawatha) is a 1937 animated cartoon produced by Walt Disney, inspired by the poem The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The animated short appears on the Gold Collection DVD of "" and the 2012 Blu-ray of Walt Disney's "Pocahontas". It is the last Silly Symphony to be released by United Artists. Over opening narration, a Native American boy named Little Hiawatha is seen paddling his canoe down a river — at one point backwards — on his way to hunt game. Upon reaching land, he steps out and immediately falls down a
The Song of Hiawatha (Coleridge-Taylor) was published as The Song of Hiawatha and had its first complete performance in 1900, at the Royal Albert Hall. The later parts of the overall work were not nearly as successful as the first part, "Hiawatha's Wedding Feast", which continued to be regarded as a work in its own right and received many hundreds of performances in the UK and overseas countries such as the USA, Canada, South Africa and New Zealand. It became so famous in Britain that for many years it rivalled Handel's "Messiah" and Mendelssohn's "Elijah" in the public's affections. Nothing else he ever wrote equalled