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
USS Hiawatha (ID-2892) USS Hiawatha (ID-2892) The second USS "Hiawatha" (ID-2892 or SP-2892) was a harbor tug that served in the United States Navy in 1918. "Hiawatha" was built as a civilian, wooden-hulled steam tug of the same name in 1903 by Brown at Tottenville, Staten Island, New York. The U.S. Navy acquired her under charter from her owner for World War I service on 1 August 1918. She was commissioned as USS "Hiawatha" (ID-2892 or SP-2892) at New York City the same day. Assigned to the 3rd Naval District, "Hiawatha" operated with the guard ship USS "Amphitrite" and was manned either by