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Minnehaha Falls

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Minnehaha Falls
Minnehaha Falls
Minnehaha Falls
Minnehaha Falls
Minnehaha Falls
Minnehaha Falls
Minnehaha Falls
Minnehaha Falls
Minnehaha Falls
Minnehaha Falls
Minnehaha Falls
Minnehaha Falls
Minnehaha Falls
Minnehaha Falls
Minnehaha Falls
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Minnehaha Rd, Katoomba, New South Wales 2780, Australia

Minnehaha is a fictional Native American woman documented in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1855 epic poem The Song of Hiawatha. She is the lover of the titular protagonist Hiawatha and comes to a tragic end. The name, often said to mean laughing water, literally translates to waterfall or rapid water in Dakota.The figure of Minnehaha inspired later art works such as paintings, sculpture and music. The Death of Minnehaha is a frequent subject for paintings. Minnehaha Falls and her death scene inspired themes in the 'New World' symphony by Antonín Dvořák. Longfellow's poem was set in a cantata trilogy, The Song of Hiawatha in 1898–1900 by the African-English composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Longfellow's poem also inspired Hugo Kaun's symphonic poems Minnehaha and Hiawatha composed in 1901.
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