Mythology and Folklore KT

The Song of Hiawatha, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1855 Hiawatha and the Pearl-Feather Nokomis points west, and tells Hiawatha about the great Pearl-Feather, guarded by serpents.  Apparently the great Pearl Feather killed her father.  She wants him to avenge her father.  Hiawatha agreed.  He killed the serpents when they did not let him pass.  When he arrived, PF told him to go back, for he will kill him like Nokomis's father.  They battled.  A woodpecker told Hiawatha told him where megissogwon was vulnerable, and that he should shoot there.  3 arrows.  PF was killed.  Hia put some of the blood on the woodpecker as a thankyou, and woodpeckers have red feathers to this day. Hiawatha's Wooing Hia still loves Minnehaha.  Nokomis wants him to marry from his own people.  Hia went to go get Minnehaha.  He proposed; she accepted.  The headed Home.  Hiawatha's Wedding-Feast Pau-Puk_Keewis was asked to dance a...

The Song of Hiawatha, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1855 This story is a poem, which I have not read before in this class.  Maybe I could write my story in poem form as well.  It is free verse (does not rhyme). Because it is a poem, I am going to write what is happening in the story so I can take my favorite parts from it later: The Four Winds Mudjekeewis cam home with the sacred belt of wampum, which he stole from Mishe-Mokwa.  He stole it by creeping close while the monster was sleeping.  He could feel the monster's breath.  Then He kit Mishe-Mokwa on the head with a club. Mishe-Mokwa is a bear.  They just used the phrase "whimpered like a woman," which I did not appreciate. Mudjekeewis (hereafter known as Mud) taunted the bear, saying that he is not brave.  He says that the bear is cowardly.  He then killed Mishe by breaking his skull. Mud is now known as the West-Wind. New character, Wabun.  East Wind.  He brings the morn...