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
Hiawatha Service these trains until October 29, 1972. At this time both "Hiawatha" and "Hiawatha Service" could be found on the same timetable. On June 15, 1976, Amtrak introduced Turboliners to the route and the name "Hiawatha Service" left the timetable, not to return until 1989. The Chicago–Milwaukee trains were known simply as ""Turboliners"" (as were comparable trains on the Chicago–Detroit and Chicago – St. Louis corridors) until October 26, 1980, when Amtrak introduced individual names for each of the trains. This practice ended on October 29, 1989, when the name "Hiawatha Service" returned as an umbrella term for all Chicago–Milwaukee service.