Hiawatha and Minnehaha by Edmonia Lewis Hiawatha and Minnehaha by Edmonia Lewis Hiawatha and Minnehaha are 1868 sculptures by Edmonia Lewis. They are in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on view in gallery 759. African-American, Haitian and Chippewa (Ojibwa) artist, Lewis, developed her neoclassical style of marble sculpture while working in Rome. Lewis was an admirer of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poetry, and in 1869 Longfellow visited her studio where he posed for one of her portraits which was shortly afterward acquired by Harvard University. Often working in themes that intersected her identity, Lewis focused a series of marble sculptures based on Longfellow’s much-referenced
North Coast Hiawatha of the company's six most beautiful. The train also provided a convenient connection to Yellowstone National Park at Livingston, Montana. On November 14, 1971, Amtrak formally named this service the "North Coast Hiawatha", For four days a week, it ran independently of the "Empire Builder" from the Twin Cities to Spokane. On the other three days of the week, it combined with the "Empire Builder" in Spokane for the trip to Seattle. Amtrak initially named the Minneapolis train "Hiawatha", but adopted the "Twin Cities Hiawatha" name on January 16, 1972. Amtrak reverted to "Hiawatha" on October 29, and this name