First IMP production and release.
According to film historian Richard Koszarski in Fort Lee: The Film Town, investor/producer Robert H. Cochrane said that scenes of the Minnehaha Falls in Minnesota were actually stock shots purchased from an outside source.
Unlike Longfellow's poem The Song of Hiawatha, the film ends with the marriage of Minnehaha to Hiawatha. In the poem, Minnehaha instead dies during the winter famine.