A supposed early New England Viking settlement and reviews of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Song of Hiawatha exhibit a pattern of racial misdirection that serves to erase Native America. This essay argues for landscape as ideology and critiques current theories of transnationalism by resurrecting this politically reactionary episode of literary history.

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2007
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