The Hiawatha Service is a passenger train service operated by Amtrak, running between Chicago, Illinois and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The service is named after the legendary Native American leader Hiawatha, and is the only Amtrak service to operate entirely within the state of Wisconsin. The Hia
The Song of Hiawatha is an 1855 epic poem in trochaic tetrameter by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow which 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 of Michigan on the south shore of Lake Superior. Longfellow's poem is based on oral traditions surrounding the figure of Manabozho, but it also contains his own innovations.