Name: The American Indians: their history, condition and prospects, from original notes and manuscripts ( 1850 )
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Author: Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
ISBN: 9781533604736

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The American Indians: their history, condition and prospects, from original notes and manuscripts ( 1850 )

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Physical Book

Author

Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

354

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

25.4 x 20.3 x 1.9 cm

Weight

0.70 kg.

ISBN13

9781533604736

Synopsis "The American Indians: their history, condition and prospects, from original notes and manuscripts ( 1850 )"

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 American Indians in the 1850s. He served as a United States Indian agent for a period beginning in 1822 in Michigan, where he married Jane Johnston, mixed-race daughter of a prominent Scotch-Irish fur trader and Ojibwa mother, herself a daughter of Ojibwa war chief Waubojeeg. She taught him the Ojibwe language and much about her maternal culture. They had several children, two of whom survived past childhood. She is now recognized as the first Native American literary writer in the United States. In 1846 the widower Schoolcraft was commissioned by Congress for a major study, known as Indian Tribes of the United States, which was published in six volumes from 1851-1857. He married again in 1847, to Mary Howard, from a slaveholding family in South Carolina. In 1860 she published the bestselling The Black Gauntlet, an anti-Uncle Tom's Cabin noveL Schoolcraft was born in 1793 in Guilderland, Albany County, New York, the son of Lawrence Schoolcraft and Anne Barbara (née Rowe) Schoolcraft. He entered Union College at age fifteen and later attended Middlebury College. He was especially interested in geology and mineralogy.

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