Hiawatha (1952 film) Hiawatha (1952 film) Hiawatha is a 1952 American film based on the 1855 epic poem "The Song of Hiawatha" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, centering on Native Americans in pre-Columbian times. Directed by Kurt Neumann, with stars Vincent Edwards and Yvette Dugay, it became the final feature produced by the low-budget Monogram Pictures, a mainstay of Hollywood's Poverty Row. Hiawatha, a member of the Ojibway tribe, is on a peace mission to the Dakotah tribe. He meets and falls in love with Minnehaha. The romance is obstructed by a threatened war between the two tribes, instigated by a hot-headed Ojibway tribe
USS Hiawatha (YT-265) USS Hiawatha (YT-265) The third USS "Hiawatha" (YT-265), later YTB-265, later YTM-265, was a type V2-ME-A1 harbor tug that entered service in the United States Navy in 1942 and was sold in 1987. "Hiawatha" was built as the tug "Port Angeles" under a Maritime Commission contract by Birchfield Boiler, Inc. at Tacoma, Washington, and launched as such on 3 April 1942, sponsored by Mrs. Violet Davies. The U.S. Navy acquired "Port Angeles" on 30 April 1942, changed her name to "Hiawatha", and placed her in service as harbor tug USS "Hiawatha" (YT-265). "Hiawatha" performed harbor tug duties for the 13th