The Indian Tribes of the United States, by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1881)
 The Indian Tribes of the United States
Schoolcraft explored Missouri and Arkansas (1817-18) and the sources of the Mississippi (1820) before becoming Indian agent for Lake Superior (1822-36) and Michigan commissioner of Indian Affairs (1836-41). His memoirs, which at times are simply a transcript of his daily journals, contain a wealth of detail about geographic, political, military, historical, and ethnographic matters. Much of his information about the Lake Superior Ojibwe came from his wife, Jane Johnston (Obahbahmwawageezhagoquay - Woman of the Sound that Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky) and her mother (the daughter of White Fisher of La Pointe and sister to Chief Buffalo). After the death of his wife in 1842, his voluminous writings contain many inaccuracies and errors. Although his first-hand observations and early writings are still trusted, his later writings (including the book linked here) should be used with caution. [Our thanks to Timm Severud of Winter, Wis., for contribution to this note]
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Related Topics: |
Early Native Peoples
Mississippian Culture and Aztalan |
| Creator: | Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864 |
| Pub Data: | Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1884 |
| Citation: | Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe. The Indian Tribes of the United States (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1884).
Online facsimile at:
http://www.1st-hand-history.org/Drake1/album1.html;
Visited on: 11/22/2009
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