The Song of Hiawatha The Song of Hiawatha The Song of Hiawatha is an 1855 epic poem in trochaic tetrameter by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that features Native American characters. The epic relates the fictional adventures of an Ojibwe warrior named Hiawatha and the tragedy of his love for Minnehaha, a Dakota woman. Events in the story are set in the Pictured Rocks area on the south shore of Lake Superior. Longfellow's poem, though based on native oral traditions surrounding the figure of Manabozho, represents not a work of transmission but an original work of American Romantic literature. Longfellow's sources for the legends and ethnography
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