Longfellow is forever linked to the Chippewa by his 1855 "The Song of Hiawatha".  It is an epic poem that launched his career.  It became a part of 8th grade english across the U.S. for many years The main male character is the Chippewa warrior Hiawatha who is linked to  the legend of Nanabozho.  In the Song of Hiawatha Longfellow used  a large number of Ojibwa words to give authenticity to his sterotyped characters.  With a student population primarily Dacotah and Chippewa the Pipestone Indian School boyscouts made the poem a scout production in 1927.  It became an annual school project that engaged the local community. It grew to become a regional event that the community continued long after Pipestone closed. 

In Michigan  Chief George Kabaosa of the Garden River band and, grandson of Chief Shingwaukonse  made a stage adaptation  of the poem.  The  tribe first preformed in 1901.  Their preformances were popular and  went international, with shows in  Boston, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Detroit, London, Portsmouth, Amsterdam, and Antwerp.  They also preformed for 20,000 people per night for two weeks at the Toronto Exhibition in 1937.                "The Song of Hiawatha", SOOTODAY.COM , 2020 https://www.sootoday.com/columns/remember-this/the-song-of-hiawatha-2147109.    From 1905-10   the G.R.& I. R.R. funded and advertised the play at Round Lake, Michigan to promote tourists to see the native American production. They hired  Canadian Louis O. Armstrong who worked with Ojibwa from the Garden River Reserve in Ontario.    In 2015 the Michigan Historical Commission erected a marker to commerate the history. (Marker # 736.) 

It was from this work that the Milwaukee Railroad choose the name for it's "Hiawatha" trains.  The "Hiawatha's" served mainlines and were in the everyday vernacular.  They ran the mainline from Chicago to St. Paul and the Hiawatha Olympian went to Seattle.  Hiawatha's provided service on railroad's  Chippewa Valley Line in Wisconsin also.  When the railrod updated service to Milwaukee they choose to name the service "Chippewa" for Hiawatha's heritage.  It was later changed to Chippewa Hiawatha.  But when the railroad went out of business the name did not die. Today's Amtrak still has a "Hiawatha" named for Longfellow's fictional Chippewa warrior.