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 Service these trains until October 29, 1972. At this time both "Hiawatha" and "Hiawatha Service" could be found on the same timetable. On June 15, 1976, Amtrak introduced Turboliners to the route and the name "Hiawatha Service" left the timetable, not to return until 1989. The Chicago–Milwaukee trains were known simply as ""Turboliners"" (as were comparable trains on the Chicago–Detroit and Chicago – St. Louis corridors) until October 26, 1980, when Amtrak introduced individual names for each of the trains. This practice ended on October 29, 1989, when the name "Hiawatha Service" returned as an umbrella term for all Chicago–Milwaukee service.