Little Hiawatha bear's path, among other things. Finally returned safely to his canoe, Hiawatha rows off into the sunset as the animals gather together and bid him farewell. 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
The Song of Hiawatha his "Hiawatha" (c.1874) a visionary statement superimposed on the fading light of the sky. Toward the end of the 19th century, artists deliberately emphasized the epic qualities of the poem, as in William de Leftwich Dodge's "Death of Minnehaha" (1885). Frederic Remington demonstrated a similar quality in his series of 22 grisailles painted in oil for the 1890 deluxe photogravure edition of "The Song of Hiawatha." One of the editions is owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Dora Wheeler's "Minnehaha listening to the waterfall" (1884) design for a needle-woven tapestry, made by the Associated Artists for the Cornelius Vanderbilt