The Book of the Play of Hiawatha

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Excerpt from The Book of the Play of Hiawatha: The Mohawk Depicting the Siege of Hochelaga and the Battle of Lake Champlain, This Libretto Is Necessary to Fully Enjoy the Stage Priducation The success of Mr. L. O. Armstrong for several years with his famous Indian dramatic representation of "Hiawatha, the Ojibway, " the equal success of his Indian contingent at the great Quebec Tercentenary of 1908, brought about his still larger undertaking of an Indian Pageant for the Lake Champlain Tercentenary. The history of the Lake and of all the Northern States opens with Samuel de Champlain's fight with the Iroquois here in 1609. It is now known that their presence on Lake Champlain was a result of their having been driven out by the Hurons and Algonquins from Hochelaga (Montreal) and Stadacona (Quebec) where Jacques Cartier had found them dwelling in 1535. The history of their romantic wars and of the founding of their remarkable League by Hiawatha is told in Lighthall's recent romance "The Master of Life" which Mr. Armstrong has used as the basis of the Pageant in leading us to the historic battle of Lake Champlain. The Indian Players are drawn from the Reservations at Caughnawaga, St. Francis, Oka in Quebec and from Brantford Garden River, St. Regis in Ont., and from Onondaga, N. Y. In the east, Scar Face is a direct descendant of Eunice Williams captured at Deerfield in 1704. While very little white blood remains in him, that little has a distinctly New England atmosphere. In the depiction, the ancient arts, customs and dress have been studied. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.