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• Hiawatha movie of 1952 nostolgic

  • Richard Webb
  • 11/29/12

  I remember seeing this black and white movie as I was growing up as a kid in the 1950's and early 1960's. The old local movie theator did show it on the one big screen probably about once a year for a number of years in the 1950's and the early 1960's. For me it is a very nostolgic movie, reminding me of those days, like The Time Machine, First Men in the Moon, Around The World in Eighty Days, and some old Martian invasion movie, etc. The moral of the movie is very good; that is, where peace triumps over war and good triumphs over evil. The portrayal of these eastern woodland Native Americans was a little off in that they did not dress up in special occasions by wearing the eagle feather bonnets, as the Plains Indians did. There were two scenes: first the Objibway having a celebration and then the Dakota wearing feather bonnets Even those original Dakota people were of eastern woodland culture. The related Lakota tribe farther west were plains culture. I used to be thrilled also that in the early part of the movie, the Objibway met the Illinois in the forest because I am from Illinois. I do possess about half of the movie on an old video tape that I taped back about 1990 from the Turner Classic Movie Channel. It would be a full recording, but day light savings time interferred with the automatic recording.

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