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 discovery of the source of the Mississippi River. He married Jane Johnston, who was of Ojibwe and Scots-Irish descent. Her knowledge of the Ojibwe language and of Ojibwe legends, which she shared with Schoolcraft, formed in part the source material for Longfellow's epic poem, The Song of Hiawatha. She has been recognized as the first Native American literary writer and first Native American poet.[1]
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3 ebooks by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
Incentives to the Study of the Ancient Period of American History
An address, delivered before the New York Historical
Society, at its forty-second anniversary, 17th November 1846
Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers
The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians
Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers
The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians
