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
MV Hiawatha The boat was converted from a steam engine to a gasoline engine in 1944. The ship was refurbished in 1983. On July 26, 2000, both "Hiawatha", and the yacht club's slightly newer ferry, "Kwasind", were sunk by vandals. "Kwasind" was refloated, and was back in working order the day of the sinking, while "Hiawatha" required further repair. MV Hiawatha MV "Hiawatha" is a passenger ferry built in 1895 for the Royal Canadian Yacht Club, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The boat is long, wide, has a depth of , and measures 46 gross tons. Her capacity is 100 passengers. "Hiawatha" was