Author: Henry Rowe SchoolcraftPublisher: Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Summary Narrative of an Exploratory Expedition to the Sources of the Mississippi River, in 1820
Author: Henry Rowe SchoolcraftPublisher: Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Schoolcraft's Indian Legends from Algic Researches
Author: Henry Rowe SchoolcraftPublisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 0870133012
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Myths of Hiawatha, Oneata, the red race in America.
Historical and Statistical Information Respecting the History, Condition and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States
Author: Henry Rowe SchoolcraftPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
Indian Agent and Wilderness Scholar
Author: Richard G. BremerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers
Author: Henry Rowe SchoolcraftPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 1116
Book Description
Start a journey through the early American frontier with 'Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers'. Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, a pioneer settler in Michigan, shares his firsthand experiences as a chief Indian agent responsible for tribal relations in the region. From the upper reaches of the Mississippi Valley to the remote corners of Missouri and Indiana, Schoolcraft's diary illuminates the complex interactions between early Americans and Native tribes. Delve into the cultural exchanges, challenges, and rapid settlement that shaped the Great Lakes region, while encountering the introduction of steamships and the influx of missionaries, settlers, and curious travelers. This intriguing memoir offers a unique perspective on a transformative era in American history.
The Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky
Author: Jane Johnston SchoolcraftPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812239812
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Introducing a dramatic new chapter to American Indian literary history, this book brings to the public for the first time the complete writings of the first known American Indian literary writer, Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (her English name) or Bamewawagezhikaquay (her Ojibwe name), Woman of the Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky (1800-1842). Beginning as early as 1815, Schoolcraft wrote poems and traditional stories while also translating songs and other Ojibwe texts into English. Her stories were published in adapted, unattributed versions by her husband, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, a founding figure in American anthropology and folklore, and they became a key source for Longfellow's sensationally popular The Song of Hiawatha. As this volume shows, what little has been known about Schoolcraft's writing and life only scratches the surface of her legacy. Most of the works have been edited from manuscripts and appear in print here for the first time. The Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky presents a collection of all Schoolcraft's extant writings along with a cultural and biographical history. Robert Dale Parker's deeply researched account places her writings in relation to American Indian and American literary history and the history of anthropology, offering the story of Schoolcraft, her world, and her fascinating family as reinterpreted through her newly uncovered writing. This book makes available a startling new episode in the history of American culture and literature.
Journal of a Tour Into the Interior of Missouri and Arkansaw
Author: Henry Rowe SchoolcraftPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arkansas
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Narrative of an Expedition Through the Upper Mississippi to Itasca Lake
Author: Henry Rowe SchoolcraftPublisher: New-York : Harper & Bros.
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This is an account by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793-1864) of his discovery of the Mississippi River's source, Lake Itasca, in 1832. Schoolcraft was an Indian agent for the region, and he assembled an expeditionary party of thirty, including Ozawindib (an Ojibway guide and interpreter), an army officer, a surgeon, a geologist, and interpreter, and a missionary. They set out with instructions from Secretary of War Lewis Cass to effect a permanent peace among the region's Native Americans, persuade them to be vaccinated against smallpox, acquire demographic and scientific information, and establish definitively the origin of the Mississippi. Expedition Through the Upper Mississippi contains anecdotes and observations about the beliefs, customs, and history of the Chippewa [Ojibway] as well as the Sioux [Dakota], the Fox [Mesquakie], the Sauk, the Menominee, the Mandans, and various other Native American groups. The narrative proceeds chronologically along the route the expedition followed, with detailed descriptions of geographical features. This volume also includes a short account of a trip along the St. Croix and Burntwood (Brule) River, and has an appendix containing statistical and linguistic data, a list of shells collected by Schoolcraft in the West and Northwestern territories, official reports, a speech by six Chippewa chiefs about the war delivered at Michilimackinac in July 1833, and a discussion of the Upper Mississippi's lead mining country.
Algic Researches
Author: Henry Rowe SchoolcraftPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Arkansas Travelers
Author: Andrew J. MilsonPublisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1610756657
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Winner, 2020 J.G. Ragsdale Book Award from the Arkansas Historical Association “I reckon stranger you have not been used much to traveling in the woods,” a hunter remarked to Henry Rowe Schoolcraft as he trekked through the Ozark backcountry in late 1818. The ensuing exchange is one of many compelling encounters between Arkansas travelers and settlers depicted in Arkansas Travelers: Geographies of Exploration and Perception, 1804–1834. This book is the first to integrate the stories of four travelers who explored Arkansas during the transformative period between the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 and statehood in 1836: William Dunbar, Thomas Nuttall, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, and George William Featherstonhaugh. In addition to gathering their tales of treacherous rivers, drunken scoundrels, and repulsive food, historian and geographer Andrew J. Milson explores the impact such travel narratives have had on geographical understandings of Arkansas places. Using the language in each traveler’s narrative, Milson suggests, and the book includes, new maps that trace these perceptions, illustrating not just the lands traversed, but the way travelers experienced and perceived place. By taking a geographical approach to the history of these spaces, Arkansas Travelers offers a deeper understanding—a deeper map—of Arkansas.