The Song of Hiawatha between the original stories, as "reshaped by Schoolcraft," and the episodes in the poem are but superficial, and Longfellow omits important details essential to Ojibwe narrative construction, characterization, and theme. This is the case even with "Hiawatha’s Fishing," the episode closest to its source. Some important parts of the poem were more or less Longfellow's invention from fragments or his imagination. "The courtship of Hiawatha and Minnehaha, the least 'Indian' of any of the events in "Hiawatha", has come for many readers to stand as the typical American Indian tale." Also, "in exercising the function of selecting incidents to make
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