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
Twin Cities Hiawatha again established a "Twin Cities Hiawatha" as a daily Chicago-Minneapolis train, but ended this service in 1978 with the introduction of the "North Star", a Chicago-Minneapolis-Duluth sleeper. Today, the "Hiawatha" name still lives on with Chicago-Milwaukee Amtrak "Hiawatha Service", and Amtrak's "Empire Builder" traverses the original route of the "Twin Cities Hiawatha" between Chicago and St. Paul. The "Twin Cities Hiawatha" ran on the railroad's main line from Chicago and Milwaukee to St. Paul and Minneapolis. Originally only five intermediate stops were made between Milwaukee and St. Paul. Later other stops were added, as well as Glenview, Illinois between Chicago