Henry Schoolcraft
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (March 28, 1793 – December 10, 1864) was an American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist, noted for his early studies of Native American cultures, as well as for his 1832 expedition to the source of the Mississippi River. He is also noted for his major six-volume study of Native Americans commissioned by Congress and published in the 1850s.He served as United States Indian agent in Michigan for a period beginning in 1822. During this period, he named several newly organized counties, often creating neologisms that he claimed were derived from indigenous languages.
There he married Jane Johnston, daughter of a prominent Scotch-Irish fur trader and an Ojibwe mother, who was the high-ranking daughter of Waubojeeg, a war chief. Johnston lived with her family in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.
Johnston was bilingual and educated, having grown up in a literate household. She taught Schoolcraft the Ojibwe language and much about her maternal culture. They had several children together, only two of whom survived past childhood. She is now recognized for her poetry and other writings as the first Native American literary writer in the United States.
Schoolcraft continued to study Native American tribes and publish works about them. In 1833, he was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society.
By 1846, Jane had died. That year, Schoolcraft was commissioned by Congress for a major study, known as ''Indian Tribes of the United States''. It was published in six volumes from 1851 to 1857, and illustrated by Seth Eastman, a career Army officer with extensive experience as an artist of indigenous peoples.
Schoolcraft married again in 1847, to Mary Howard, from a slaveholding family in South Carolina. In 1860, Howard published the bestselling novel ''The Black Gauntlet''. It was part of the Anti-Tom literature that was written in Southern response to the bestselling ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' by Northern abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe. Provided by Wikipedia
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Alhalla, Or the Lord Of Talladega A Tale Of the Creek War. With Some Selected Miscellanies, Chiefly Of Early Date. By Henry Rowe Colcraft by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
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Indian Melodies by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
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The Rise Of the West, Or a Prospect Of the Mississippi Valley A Poem. By Henry R. Schoolcraft by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
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The black gauntlet; a tale of plantation life in South Carolina, by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, Mrs.
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The black gauntlet : a tale of plantation life in South Carolina / by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, Mrs.
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Schoolcraft's expedition to lake itasca : the discovery of the source of the Mississippi / by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864
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Indian legends from Algic researches. by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864
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Expedition to Lake Itasca. by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864
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Personal memoirs of a residence of thirty years with the Indian tribes on the American frontiers / by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864
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The American Indians. Their history, condition and prospects, from original notes and manuscripts. by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864
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The Indian tribes of the United States: their history antiquities, customs, religion, arts, language, traditions, oral legends, and myths. by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864
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Historical and statistical information respecting the history, condition, and prospects of the Indian tribes of the United States; collected and prepared under the direction of the... by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864
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Travels in the central portions of the Mississippi valley: comprising observations on its mineral geography, internal resources, and aboriginal population. by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864
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Narrative journal of travels through the northwestern regions of the United States; extending from Detroit through the great chain of American lakes, to the sources of the Mississi... by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864
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A view of the lead mines of Missouri; including some observations on the mineralogy, geology, geography, antiquities, and soil, climate, population, and productuions of Missouri an... by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864
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The rise of the West, or, A prospect of the Mississippi Valley A poem. by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864
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Information respecting the history, condition and prospects of the Indian tribes of the United States: by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864
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Narrative of an expedition through the upper Mississippi to Itasca lake, the actual source of this river; embracing an exploratory trip through the St. Croix and Burntwood (or Brou... by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864
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Incentives to the study of the ancient period of American history. An address delivered before the New York Historical Society ... 17th November, 1846. by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe 1793-1864
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Oneóta, or Characteristics of the red race of America by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864
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