Hiawatha (1952 film) Hiawatha (1952 film) Hiawatha is a 1952 American film based on the 1855 epic poem "The Song of Hiawatha" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, centering on Native Americans in pre-Columbian times. Directed by Kurt Neumann, with stars Vincent Edwards and Yvette Dugay, it became the final feature produced by the low-budget Monogram Pictures, a mainstay of Hollywood's Poverty Row. Hiawatha, a member of the Ojibway tribe, is on a peace mission to the Dakotah tribe. He meets and falls in love with Minnehaha. The romance is obstructed by a threatened war between the two tribes, instigated by a hot-headed Ojibway tribe
Twin Cities Hiawatha cars in Chicago. The "Afternoon Hiawatha" ended on January 23, 1970. The "Morning Hiawatha" continued until the formation of Amtrak, making its last run on April 30, 1971. Amtrak retained a single Chicago-Minneapolis frequency with the Burlington Northern's "Empire Builder", which was re-routed over the Milwaukee Road's line through Milwaukee to St. Paul. Amtrak brought back the name "Twin Cities Hiawatha" as a Chicago-Minneapolis service on January 16, 1972. On June 12 that year Amtrak combined this service with the "North Coast Hiawatha"; three days a week the train continued to Seattle, otherwise it terminated at Minneapolis. In 1977 Amtrak