Question

I should answer, I should tell you:

‘From the forests and the prairies,
From the great lakes of the Northland,
From the land of the Ojibways,
From the land of Dacotahs,
From the mountains, moors, and fenlands,
When the heron, the Shuh-shuh-gah,
Feeds among the reeds and rushes.
I repeat them as I heard them
From the lips of Nawadaha,
The musician, the sweet singer.’

In this excerpt from “The Song of Hiawatha,” what important connection does Henry Wadsworth Longfellow establish in this introduction?

Answer 1

He connects the story he will tell to the history of the Native American people.

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Answer 2

In this excerpt from The Song of Hiawatha, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow tries to share with the reader the feelings about native american indians and their beautiful traditions with the objective of recording the deeds of Hiawatha and showing the reasons why he was so imporant for his tribe.