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
USS Hiawatha (YT-265) USS Hiawatha (YT-265) The third USS "Hiawatha" (YT-265), later YTB-265, later YTM-265, was a type V2-ME-A1 harbor tug that entered service in the United States Navy in 1942 and was sold in 1987. "Hiawatha" was built as the tug "Port Angeles" under a Maritime Commission contract by Birchfield Boiler, Inc. at Tacoma, Washington, and launched as such on 3 April 1942, sponsored by Mrs. Violet Davies. The U.S. Navy acquired "Port Angeles" on 30 April 1942, changed her name to "Hiawatha", and placed her in service as harbor tug USS "Hiawatha" (YT-265). "Hiawatha" performed harbor tug duties for the 13th