Hiawatha in History, Legend, and Poetry
Professor Mary McCutcheon will talk about the historical Hiawatha. Q&A to follow. Adults.
- Date:
- Wednesday, November 13, 2024
- Time:
- 6:30pm - 7:30pm
- Location:
- Tysons-Pimmit Meeting Room 1, Tysons-Pimmit Meeting Room 2
- Library Branch:
- Tysons-Pimmit Regional Library
- Categories:
- Author Event Native American History Presentation/Performance
- Audience:
- Adults General Interest Older Adults
TOPIC
Hiawatha in History, Legend and Poetry (Speaker: Mary McCutcheon)
Most of us know about Hiawatha from Longfellow’s long poem. But there was a historic Hiawatha as well as Iroquois legends embellishing this person’s career. How did Longfellow come to pick Hiawatha for his poem?
BIO
Mary McCutcheon taught in the George Mason University anthropology department from 1988 to 2004. Before that Ms. McCutcheon worked at the Smithsonian in the Directorate of International Affairs. Before that she taught at the University of Guam.
Ms. McCutcheon does research on land and marine resource ownership in the Palau Islands of Micronesia. Over the years she taught at Mason, Ms. McCutcheon refined her lecture topics which are relevant today and which have been popular with the audiences. In addition to continuing her work in Micronesia, Ms. McCutcheon is spending her retirement trying to understand the surge of religiosity in our society.
