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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 ...
The Literary Voyager, also known as The Muzzeniegun (Ojibwe for ‘book', also spelled Muzzinyegun[1]) was a manuscript magazine produced by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft between December 1826 and April 1827, for a total of 16 issues. It is recognized as the first magazine published in Michigan, as well as the first periodical pertaining to Native ...
Henry Schoolcraft's publications, including materials written by Jane Schoolcraft, were the main source for Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha (1855). They had four children: William Henry Schoolcraft (June 1824 – March 1827) died of croup at nearly three. [5] Jane Schoolcraft wrote poems expressing her grief about his loss. [6]
The Grave Creek Stone and a plaster cast of the stone in the collection of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. The Grave Creek Stone is a small sandstone disk inscribed on one side with some twenty-five characters, purportedly discovered in 1838 at Grave Creek Mound in Moundsville, West Virginia. If genuine, it could provide evidence of ...
She was the second wife of the widower and ethnologist Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, who was 53 when they married in 1846. They lived in Washington, DC . The Black Gauntlet is an example of the pro-slavery plantation literature genre that was written in response to the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin ( 1852 ) by Harriet Beecher Stowe .
Designated MSHS. September 25, 1956 [3] Elmwood, also known as the Henry Rowe Schoolcraft House, the Schoolcraft House or the Indian Agency, is a frame house located at 435 East Water Street in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1956 [3] and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
Henry Schoolcraft created many neologisms for places within the Michigan Territory, combining Native American languages with Latin and Arabic syllables. Pages in category "Henry Schoolcraft neologisms"
Henry Schoolcraft, an explorer who lived among Native American tribes, led two different expeditions along the Namekagon. Schoolcraft described the river at northern portage near Cable, Wisconsin as being seventy-five feet wide and eighteen inches at the deepest part. The river banks were rich with large pines, hardwood and spruce.