The Death of Minnehaha

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"The Death of Minnehaha" was a part of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1855 poem The Song of Hiawatha .

It was rendered by the painter William de Leftwich Dodge in 1892, as the painting Death-Of-Minnehaha. Later the poem was arranged by Charles Crozat Converse into a popular song. It was also the second part (composed 1899) of the cantata trilogy The Song of Hiawatha by the English composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.

References

Cornelius, Steven (2004). Music of the Civil War Era. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 0-313-32081-0.

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The Song of Hiawatha/Book XX

v t e Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Prose	Outre-Mer (1830s) Hyperion (1839) Kavanagh (1849)
Poetry	"The Battle of Lovells Pond" (1820) "A Psalm of Life" (1838) "Excelsior" (1841) "The Village Blacksmith" (1841) "The Skeleton in Armor" (1841) "The Wreck of the Hesperus" (1842) Poems on Slavery (collection, 1842) Evangeline (1847) The Song of Hiawatha (The Death of Minnehaha) (1855) "Santa Filomena" (1857) The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858) "The Children's Hour" (1860) "Paul Revere's Ride" (1860) "The Saga of King Olaf" (1863) Tales of a Wayside Inn (collection, 1863) "Christmas Bells" (1863) "The Sermon of St. Francis" (1875)
Family	Alexander S. Wadsworth (uncle) Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow Jr. (nephew) Alice Mary Longfellow (daughter) Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow (son) Mary King Longfellow (niece) Nathan Appleton (father-in-law) Peleg Wadsworth (grandfather) Richard Bonython (ancestor) Richard Henry Dana III (son-in-law) Samuel Longfellow (brother) Stephen Longfellow (father)
Historic houses	Birthplace (Portland, Maine) Wadsworth-Longfellow House (Portland, Maine) Longfellow House (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Memorials	Longfellow Square Portland, Maine memorial Washington, D.C. memorial
Namesakes	Longfellow Bridge Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site Longfellow Mountains
Related	Dante Society of America "the mills of God grind slowly" "Whom the gods would destroy"

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