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 (ID-2892) USS Hiawatha (ID-2892) The second USS "Hiawatha" (ID-2892 or SP-2892) was a harbor tug that served in the United States Navy in 1918. "Hiawatha" was built as a civilian, wooden-hulled steam tug of the same name in 1903 by Brown at Tottenville, Staten Island, New York. The U.S. Navy acquired her under charter from her owner for World War I service on 1 August 1918. She was commissioned as USS "Hiawatha" (ID-2892 or SP-2892) at New York City the same day. Assigned to the 3rd Naval District, "Hiawatha" operated with the guard ship USS "Amphitrite" and was manned either by