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
Hiawatha (train) surplus equipment was sold to Canadian National Railways. One car, #15 "Coffee Creek" from the "Olympian Hiawatha", is undergoing restoration. The "Chippewa" began in May 1937, running north through Milwaukee and Green Bay to Channing, Michigan (later extended to Ontonagon). It carried the "Hiawatha" moniker between 1948-1957 and was discontinued in 1960. Under Amtrak, which assumed control of most intercity passenger rail service in the United States on May 1, 1971, the "Hiawatha" name survived in two forms. The first was a Chicago–Milwaukee–Minneapolis service, known simply as the "Hiawatha". This would be renamed the "Twin Cities Hiawatha", then extended to