Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote the name as `` Gitche Gumee '' in The Song of Hiawatha , thinking it meant Lake Superior .
`` Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , mistaking the name to mean simply Lake Superior , wrote the name as `` '' Gitche Gumee '' '' in The Song of Hiawatha , as did Gordon Lightfoot in his song , `` '' The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald '' '' . ''
Lake Superior