The Wise One

 Hiawatha

Known as "the wise one" he sits atop the falls overlooking the park giant and out of times past.
A story of the life of an Ojibwe warrior named Hiawatha and his love, Minnehaha, 
which means “laughing waters”  for which this place is named.

See * Hiawatha; a poem, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.