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Found these legends and traditions,
I should answer, I should tell you,

(Just not a big fan of Longfellow, is all.)

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"In the bird’s-nests of the forest,
In the lodges of the beaver,

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In the hoof-prints of the bison,
In the eyry of the eagle!

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"All the wild-fowl sang them to him,
In the moorlands and the fen-lands,

-“BB”-

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In the melancholy marshes;
Chetowaik, the plover, sang them,

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Mahng, the loon, the wild-goose, Wawa,
The blue heron, the Shuh-shuh-gah,

(I’ve been to Wawa, Ontario. It has a statue of a giant Canada goose overlooking the road into town.)

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And the grouse, the Mushkodasa!"
If still further you should ask me,

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Saying, “Who was Nawadaha?
Tell us of this Nawadaha,”

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I should answer your inquiries
Straightway in such words as follow.

-“BB”-

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"In the vale of Tawasentha,
In the green and silent valley,

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By the pleasant water-courses,
Dwelt the singer Nawadaha.

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Round about the Indian village
Spread the meadows and the corn-fields,

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And beyond them stood the forest,
Stood the groves of singing pine-trees,

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Green in Summer, white in Winter,
Ever sighing, ever singing.

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"And the pleasant water-courses,
You could trace them through the valley,

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By the rushing in the Spring-time,
By the alders in the Summer,

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By the white fog in the Autumn,
By the black line in the Winter;

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And beside them dwelt the singer,
In the vale of Tawasentha,

-“BB”-

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In the green and silent valley.
"There he sang of Hiawatha,

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Sang the Song of Hiawatha,
Sang his wondrous birth and being,