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
Hiawatha (train) lightweight equipment. The "Morning Hiawatha" (trains 5 and 6) and "Afternoon Hiawatha" (trains 3 and 2) continued to operate between Chicago and Minneapolis until the latter train was discontinued on January 23, 1970. The last runs of the "Morning Hiawatha" were on April 30, 1971, immediately prior to the introduction of Amtrak. With the delivery of the 1938 trainsets, the original 1935 "Hiawatha" equipment was reassigned to the Chicago to Omaha/Sioux City route where it ran as the "Midwest Hiawatha". The service began on December 11, 1940. The final trip for the "Midwest Hiawatha" from all terminals occurred on October