● It was while we were exploring the meaning of trochaic tetrameter (I’d wager you didn’t think you’d ever hear that in ) in a school poetry lesson that I first came across Hiawatha (nor him), a precolonial Native American leader. He was quite a guy and united many Native American tribes into the Iroquois Confederacy of northeast North America. Later I learnt that when the Pilgrim Fathers arrived from England, there was a Native American there who could speak English, having
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May 11, 2023
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