A DRAMATIZATION OF
LONGFELLOW’S

HIAWATHA.

A Spectacular Drama in Six Acts.

Delineating the Characteristics and Customs
OF
THE NATIVE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN.

Re-written, Revised, Arranged and Dramatized
By A. L. DE VINE.

Entered According to Act of Congress in the Year 1895
By A. L. DE VINE.
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Copyrighted in Great Britain and British Possessions,
France, Germany, Italy,
Belgium, Denmark, Portugal and Switzerland.

INTRODUCTORY.

To ye whose hearts are fresh and simple
Who have faith in God and Nature,
Who believe that in all ages
Every human heart is human,
That in even savage bosoms
There are longings, yearnings, strivings
For the good they comprehend not,
That the feeble hands and helpless,
Groping blindly in the darkness,
Touch God’s right hand in that darkness
And are lifted up and strengthened,

Is submitted thisportrayal of the primitive life of the American Indians in their nativeforest home. Fully realizing how rapidly the race is becoming extinctbefore the onward march of civilizing influences, and how little thepeople of this and other countries really know of such customs, dress,and peculiarities, it is believed this spectacular drama will befound historical, an educator to the young and interesting toall. In thus depicting the higher and betterlife of the Indian race, their mode of living, dress, pastimes, feats ofskill, dances, wooings, wedding feasts, festivities, death scenes andlegends, the author has adhered to the original language of the poem asclosely as is consistent with a faithful dramatization thereof.

This is the first and only known drama of this kind or character inexistence, and no other subject, throughout the wide and varied fieldof poetry, offers like opportunities to the facile pen of the skilledplaywright.

SYNOPSIS OF SCENES
AND INCIDENTS.

ACT I. The Peace Pipe.Gitche Manitou (Great Spirit) descends from Heaven and admonishes thetribes to cease warfare and bloodshed—Indians discard weapons and warpaint—Gitche Manitou promises to send Hiawatha as a guide—Fashions aPeace Pipe—Sets fire to the forest and vanishes in smoke.

ACT II. Hiawatha’s Childhood.Tribe of Ojibways—Hiawatha a babe in Indian cradle—Nokomis swingingcradle—Indian lullaby.

ACT III. Hiawatha’s Wooing.Scene 1—Hiawatha grown to manhood—Desires to wed Minnehaha, aDakotah maiden—Discussion—Departs on journey—Nokomis sorrowing.Scene 2—Hiawatha in forest—Shoots a deer—Shoulders it. Scene3—Tribe of Dakotahs—Minnehaha Falls—Wigwam of Arrow-mak

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