BəDİİ ƏSƏRLƏRİn diLİNDƏ DİalektizmləRİn yeri VƏ MÖvqeyi

İsgandarova N.V., Alizadeh N.Sh. 

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movements and prayers all related to the forthcoming battle. Some Indian dances gives a story is 
told from the beginning till the end of the dance. They could tell the story of the world and how 
men learned to survive in life. The dancers were dressed to represent the spirits or beings who 
made, helped or taught the tribe [2, 86-88]. Not only dance but also music plays a large part in 
Indians’ life. For an Indian man music is a part of his expression of feelings. Indians use music as a 
religious aspiration. With the help of music they communicate with the unseen world. Indians tell 
different stories like religious, tribal and their personal experiences with music. They express their 
feelings through the music [4, 3]. They sing for gods, friends, enemies, for the animals they hunt, 
the maiden they woo. Indians also sing for the nature around them, for the forests, lakes, mountains 
and etc. In short, everything that surrounds them and makes interest for them becomes the subject 
for a new song. Indian songs are divided into two general divisions. To the first division includes 
songs those made by men. These songs are to please the ear, they rouse the feelings, encourages one 
to do brave deeds. The second division includes songs that come in dreams through the spirits. 
These songs are considered holy; they are belonging to sacred rites and ceremonies. They are 
supposed to do wonders. Indians believe that spiritual songs have magic power and they can make 
something better. They sang these songs especially for ill people believing that it will help them to 
recover. Indians believed that each song that came to man in dream was the individual property of 
that man who dreamed it. It belonged to him and no one else could sing it except that person. He 
could give it to someone by will with his own desire. Otherwise the song dies with him and after his 
death no one has the right to sing a dream song of another without permission. Dream songs are 
supposed to have power to invoke divine aid and to protect its owner from evil. Surely there should 
be text of a song. But the text in Indian song is less important than its melody. In Indian songs there 
is only one idea and it is expressed too short. Two or three words are enough in one song to express 
the idea of a song and to show the song’s aim. Often it is impossible to understand the idea of a 
song without explanation. For a stranger an Indian song has no sense, because it needs an 
explanation. For example, there is a song of Indians which has only these words: “Warm door in 
winter, door, and warm door”. If someone listens to this song without knowing its origin and story, 
he will understand nothing. He will think that this song has no sense and it’s ridiculous. But an 
Indian who sings it, first tells the story of this song is about a man who was about to die in the 
freezing weather. He was all alone; no one was near to help him. Suddenly he hears the voice of a 
drum. He understands that there is an Indian village near him, but he doesn’t know whether they are 
hospitable or not. With insurance he goes towards the voice of a drum, but still he had hesitation. 
But it was better to go and see rather than to die in frost. When he reaches the village he hears the 
Indian within, singing this song of hospitality, so he knew that the Indian would be his friend. So 
the words “door in winter” are only a sign of the story of the song [4, 14]. 
Speaking about songs we have to mention Chibiabos’s name. He was the sweetest musician 
and singer of Ojibway tribe and Hiawatha’s friend. In Hiawatha’s wedding Nokomis asks him to 
sing with his sweetest voice to entertain their guests and to have great time. Chibiabos sings of love 
with his sweetness and gives pleasure to the guests. He sings of love and sadness of a maiden’s 
lamentation for her lover: 
“When I think of my beloved 
Ah me! Think of my beloved 
When my heart is thinking of him 
O my sweetheart, my Algonquin.”[5, 94] 
Longfellow wrote this song not as possessing to Chibiabos. This song was connected with real 
historical events. Under the control of General Montealm the French Indian department tried to bring 
a group of Indians into the valley of the lower St. Laurence in 1759. Their invitations for the purpose 
reached the farthest shores of Lake Superior, where came French warriors and an Indian girl from 
Chippewa tribe whose name was Paig-wain-e-osh-e, or White Eagle. She was gazing after the canoes 
Indian feasts in Henry Wordsworth Longfellow’s “The song of Hiawatha” 

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which departed from their lands. In one of the canoes was her beloved, a young French soldier 
Algonquin. So the Chibiabos sang the song full of love and praised him and his sweet voice [2, 123]. 
Among the guests in Hiawatha’s wedding there was Iagoo, the great boaster. Iagoo was a 
marvelous story teller and a friend of Old Nokomis. He was jealous with the applause the guests gave 
to Chibiabos, so he told a story to the people at the wedding. Iagoo was described as a marvelous 
story teller in the poem and a poetic character under the same name. Iagoo was a personage from 
Indian folklore. He was the one who always told stories of extraordinary journeys, events, things. He 
always spoke stories of his own adventures. But according to poem, he himself never had an 
adventure, never shot an arrow, and never did any journey. But if someone listens to him, he’ll believe 
his stories as they are so true narrated by Iagoo that it is impossible not to believe him. Among the 
Indians telling stories was a great amusement. In the evenings they gathered around the fire in a 
wigwam, and listened to old stories of heroes and their deeds [6, 196]. They were fond of stories. 
Some of the stories were about themselves, their own adventures and most of them were about some 
wise and good man who lived long ago and taught Indian people how they should live. Some stories 
were about the explanation of how the things should be used and for what they exist. Most of these 
stories could be told at anytime and anywhere. But there were stories that were sacred and they were 
told only in some certain occasions and to certain person on particular situation. There were also “old 
stories” among some tribes that must not be told in the summer. To the Indians when the trees are full 
of green leaves, the spirits of the leaves could listen to the story. These “old stories” were narrated in 
the winter, when snow lies on the ground and the leaves have fallen. In winter the trees are sleeping 
and this is a good circumstance for Indians to tell their stories in silence and assurance that no one will 
listen [2, 31]. In Hiawatha’s wedding feast Iagoo tells the story of the son of the Evening Star, a story 
full of magic and mystery. This was the story of Osseo, the son of Evening Star and his wife Oweenee 
which shows the power of true love and faithfulness [5, 96-107]. 
Another interesting theme in feasts was the people’s dressing in feasts. Actually Indians 
wore differently from other nations and it was always interesting to people from other worlds. Here 
in the poem, Longfellow specifically describes people in feast wearing their best clothes that they 
had for the feast. They wore wigwam belts, painted their faces. Telling about the wedding-feast of 
Hiawatha Longfellow describes the dress of Pau-Puk-Keewis. He wears a shirt from deerskin. His 
deerskin leggings are fringy with quills of hedgehog and ermine. His moccasins were from 
buckskins and were decorated with beads and quills. There are feathers on his head and on his heels 
are tails of foxes. So from these descriptions Longfellow gives very clear account of what the 
typical Indian of eastern North America wore.
Indian way of life does not include only feasts, food and amusements. Their homes, painting 
their faces on special occasions, like wars and feasts, means of transportation they used, their way 
of communicating and manner of speaking are also given in “The Song of Hiawatha”. The Native 
Americans are very rich in history, traditions and their unbelievable triumphs and adventures [3].