Nawadaha

Role: singer · First appears: Introduction

In the Introduction, Nawadaha lived in the vale of Tawasentha, where he sang of Hiawatha. He heard stories and songs from the wild-fowl: Chetowaik, Mahng, Wawa, Shuh-shuh-gah, and Mushkodasa. The narrator says, “I repeat them as I heard them From the lips of Nawadaha, The musician, the sweet singer.”

Relationship record

Life events

• Nawadaha lived in the vale of Tawasentha and sang of Hiawatha.(Introduction · 📍 the vale of Tawasentha)
  • “Dwelt the singer Nawadaha. Round about the Indian village Spread the meadows and the corn-fields, And beyond them stood the forest, Stood the groves of singing pine-trees, Green in Summer, white in Winter, Ever sighing, ever singing.”
• Nawadaha heard the stories and songs from the wild-fowl.(Introduction)
  • With: Chetowaik Mahng Wawa Shuh-shuh-gah Mushkodasa
  • “I repeat them as I heard them From the lips of Nawadaha, The musician, the sweet singer.”

Introduction

• benefactor: Chetowaik “All the wild-fowl sang them to him, In the moorlands and the fen-lands, In the melancholy marshes; Chetowaik, the plover, sang them, Mahng, the loon, the wild-goose, Wawa, The blue heron, the Shuh-shuh-gah, And the grouse, the Mushkodasa!”
• benefactor: Mahng “All the wild-fowl sang them to him, In the moorlands and the fen-lands, In the melancholy marshes; Chetowaik, the plover, sang them, Mahng, the loon, the wild-goose, Wawa, The blue heron, the Shuh-shuh-gah, And the grouse, the Mushkodasa!”
• benefactor: Wawa “All the wild-fowl sang them to him, In the moorlands and the fen-lands, In the melancholy marshes; Chetowaik, the plover, sang them, Mahng, the loon, the wild-goose, Wawa, The blue heron, the Shuh-shuh-gah, And the grouse, the Mushkodasa!”
• benefactor: Shuh-shuh-gah “All the wild-fowl sang them to him, In the moorlands and the fen-lands, In the melancholy marshes; Chetowaik, the plover, sang them, Mahng, the loon, the wild-goose, Wawa, The blue heron, the Shuh-shuh-gah, And the grouse, the Mushkodasa!”
• benefactor: Mushkodasa “All the wild-fowl sang them to him, In the moorlands and the fen-lands, In the melancholy marshes; Chetowaik, the plover, sang them, Mahng, the loon, the wild-goose, Wawa, The blue heron, the Shuh-shuh-gah, And the grouse, the Mushkodasa!”

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Extracted from the original text of The Song of Hiawatha. Made with Rho MD.