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	Schoolcraft College - The Name and its Significance
		Schoolcraft's plans to act were formulated after participating in a treaty council held in Chicago where he had the good fortune to see Indians of many American nations and observe their "eloquence and serenity." Accepting a position as Indian agent in Sault Ste.
		Schoolcraft was certainly a leading literateur and educator of his day on the frontier where he helped and encouraged others.
		Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, writer, historian, scientist, educator, was a credit to Michigan and to his country.
	www.schoolcraft.cc.mi.us /archives/henry_rowe_schoolcraft.asp (1346 words)

	Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793â“1864) - Encyclopedia of Arkansas
		Schoolcraft’s great-grandfather was a British soldier in New York in the early 1700s who settled with a German wife in Schoharie County, New York.
		Henry Rowe Schoolcraft was born in Guilderland, New York, near Albany, on March 28, 1793, and was a studious boy interested in geology, literature, art, and languages.
		Schoolcraft’s spirit of exploration and his determination to keep a journal, however, were worthwhile, as he interested his own contemporaries in the potential for settlement of the area.
	encyclopediaofarkansas.net /encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=2412 (805 words)

	Sketches of the Life of Henry A. Schoolcraft
		Schoolcraft is a native of New York, and is the descendant in the third generation, by the paternal line, of an Englishman.
		James Calcraft had served with reputation in the armies of the Duke of Marlborough during the reign of Queen Anne, and was present in that general's celebrated triumphs on the continent, in one of which he lost an eye, from the premature explosion of the priming of a cannon.
		Henry Rowe Schoolcraft was born in Albany County, on the 28th of March, 1793, during the second presidential term of Washington.
	www.nanations.com /schoolcraft/schoolcraft-sketches.htm (3883 words)

	Henry Schoolcraft Summary
		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 discovery in 1832 of the source of the Mississippi River.
		Schoolcraft was engaged as Superintendent of Indian Affairs in the Northern Department in 1839 when he began a series of Native American studies later published as the Algic Researches.
		Schoolcraft County, Michigan, the village of Schoolcraft, Michigan, and Schoolcraft College in Livonia, Michigan are named in his honor, as is Schoolcraft State Park in Minnesota.
	www.bookrags.com /Henry_Schoolcraft (1157 words)

	Canku Ota - April 19, 2003 - Jane Johnston (Obahbahmwawageezhagoquay) Schoolcraft Bio
		In 1822 Jane met Henry Rowe Schoolcraft who had come to the Sault as US Indian Agent for the Michigan Territory when he was twenty-nine.
		Henry was a man of interests, he was very serious, and had a little sense of humor.
		Henry's health was poor too, as he began to suffer from recurrent, mysterious paralytic attacks.
	www.turtletrack.org /CO_FirstPerson/CO_04052003_JaneJohnsonBio.htm (942 words)

	Schoolcraft, Michigan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Schoolcraft is a village in Kalamazoo County in the U.S. state of Michigan.
		Schoolcraft is located on a prairie, and much of the land outside of the village is used as farm land, with the primary crops being corn and soybeans.
		Schoolcraft Upper Elementary - The Upper Elementary in Schoolcraft consists of grades 3, 4, 5 and 6.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Schoolcraft,_Michigan (907 words)

	Henry Rowe Schoolcraft - The "Lewis And Clark" of The Ozarks
		Schoolcraft’s detailed reports of the Ozarks were the first of their kind for the area.
		Schoolcraft realized that the area contained some of the richest ore deposits on earth but knew that the mines of the region could never be fully developed without educated workers.
		Schoolcraft and Pettibone were often hungry due to their inability to obtain food on their own and found themselves trading with or relying on the hospitality of the locals for their survival.
	www.rollanet.org /~conorw/cwome/article46-48combined.htm (2987 words)

	VG: Artist Biography: Schoolcraft, Jane Johnston
		Schoolcraft was part Ojibwe and part Irish, the daughter of John Johnston, a white fur trader, and the granddaughter of the famous Ojibwe chief Waub Ojeeg.
		Henry Schoolcraft first came in contact with Native Americans while working as a geologist in Lewis Cass’s unsuccessful expedition to find the source of the Mississippi River, in 1820.
		Schoolcraft wrote many of her stories “to preserve them for future generations as well as build bridges of understanding between Indian and white cultures” (Kilcup).
	voices.cla.umn.edu /vg/Bios/entries/schoolcraft_jane_johnston.html (3287 words)

	Schoolcraft Learning Community
		Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793-1864) is recognized as the European "discoverer" (in 1832) of the source of the Mississippi River.
		Originally trained as a mineralogist, circumstances and curiousity led Schoolcraft to become a pioneer ethnologist focusing on Native American studies, particularly of the Anishinabe Ojibway; he was especially interested in Anishinabeg language and culture.
		This interest went beyond the merely academic since in 1823 Henry married Jane Johnston, whose father John was a prominent fur trader in the Great Lakes region and whose mother, Ozhaw-Guscoday-Wayquay, was the daughter of Waub Ojeeg, a revered and powerful leader of the Chequamegon (Red Cliff) band of the Ojibway.
	www.schoolcraft.org /html/faq_pages/why.html (434 words)

	Rivers of Life: Resources - Feature #5 (Headwaters)
		Schoolcraft was born on March 28, 1793, in Albany County, New York.
		Schoolcraft joined Lewis Cass, the governor of the Michigan territory, on an expedition to find the source of the Mississippi in 1821, but they got only as far as Red Cedar Lake.
		For the next ten years, Schoolcraft was involved in treaty negotiations with the Native American bands, collecting traditional stories and legends, and documenting their ceremonies, and lives.
	cgee.hamline.edu /rivers/Resources/Feature/feat5.htm (402 words)

	Schoolcraft's Camp
		Schoolcraft and Pettibone thereby made their way up the James River to the site of the lead deposit exposed in the riverbank near the mouth of Pearson's Creek.
		The vein of lead ore described by Schoolcraft proved to be one of many veins of galena distributed through the parent limestone rock.
		Henry R. Schoolcraft, Journal of a Tour into the Interior of Missouri and Arkansas in 1818 and 1819.
	thelibrary.springfield.missouri.org /lochist/historicalsites/3.cfm (797 words)

	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
		Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and William Prescott were a few of the great minds and spirits among whom Longfellow took his place as a singer and as a representative of America.
		Henry was the son of Stephen Longfellow and Zilpah Wadsworth Longfellow.
		Henry Schoolcraft's book on Indians and several meetings with an Ojibway chief provided the background for 'Hiawatha'.
	www.auburn.edu /~vestmon/longfellow_bio.html (1775 words)

	Henry R. Schoolcraft
		Henry Rowe Schoolcraft was born near Albany, New York March 28, 1793.
		Schoolcraft’s Journal was the first written account of an exploration through the Ozarks.
		Schoolcraft, Journal of a Tour into the Interior of Missouri and Arkansaw, from Potosi, or Mine a Burton, in Missouri Territory, in a South-West Direction, toward the Rocky Mountains, Performed in the Years 1818 and 1819.
	history.missouristate.edu /FTMiller/LocalHistory/Schoolcraft/hrschcrft.htm (394 words)

	Henry Rowe Schoolcraft - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		HENRY ROWE SCHOOLCRAFT (1793-1864), American traveller, ethnologist and author, was born on the 28th of March 1 793 at what is now Guilderland, New York, and died at Washington on the 10th of December 1864.
		From 1828 to 1831 Schoolcraft was an active member of the Michigan legislature.
		This page was last modified 15:20, 6 Oct 2006.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Henry_Rowe_Schoolcraft (400 words)

	Views of the Apostle Islands - Part 1
		Schoolcraft's determination that the number of Apostle Islands matched the number of states of the Union at the time is reflected in his 1820 sketch where he gives each island the name of a state and dubs the entire group the Federation Islands.
		As Schoolcraft applied "Massachusetts" to what we know as Sand Island, it is then probable that the two small islands to the west that he called "New Hampshire" and "Vermont" match the present-day Eagle Island and the since-submerged Steamboat Island, respectively.
		Schoolcraft's cartography, we should be aware of the dynamics of landform alteration in what could be quite a volatile region that may look considerably different 200 years from now due to shifting sandbars and coastal erosion.
	www.jlindquist.com /mapsupp5.html (2027 words)

	MHAL - Michigan Counties
		Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, author and Indian agent, mixed words and syllables from Native American, Arabian and Latin languages to make up Native American-sounding words for some of the 28 counties set off in 1840.
		Not a Native American name, it is believed to have been created by Henry Schoolcraft with "al" for "the" and "pinai" for partridge or "penaissee" for bird.
		Created by Henry Schoolcraft, it is believed to be a combination of "dusinagon" (level) and "cola" (lands).
	www.michigan.gov /hal/0,1607,7-160-15481_20826_20829-54126--,00.html (2107 words)

	Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		As a young man, Schoolcraft abandoned his family's glassmaking business and made a journey down the Ohio River to Missouri.
		As geologist on the expedition of Gen. Lewis Cass, Schoolcraft made topographical surveys of the country of present N Michigan and about the upper Great Lakes.
		He made another journey to the Mississippi in 1832, this time correctly determining Lake Itasca as the river's source, and served in the territorial legislature from 1828 to 1832.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-schoolcr.html (476 words)

	Amazon.ca: Rude Pursuits and Rugged Peaks: Schoolcraft's Ozark Journal, 1818-1819: Books: Milton D. Rafferty,Henry Rowe ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Schoolcraft's journal describing his expedition into the Missouri/Arkansas border area in the dead of an Ozarks winter is an entertaining read!
		Schoolcraft used an expansive vocabulary to describe his surroundings, which is almost more entertaining than the facts he's trying to relate.
		A common misconception is that Schoolcraft was exploring country that had never before been seen by white settlers.
	www.amazon.ca /Rude-Pursuits-Rugged-Peaks-Schoolcrafts/dp/1557284121 (711 words)

	More info about the poet: Henry Rowe - references bibliography
		HENRY ROWE SCHOOLCRAFT (1793-1864), American traveller, ethnologist and author, was born on the 28th of March 1 793 at what is now Guilderland, New York,...
		American ethnologist Henry Schoolcraft was influential in studies of indigenous people in the American continents, and did his best to dispel the myth of...
		Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, a noted American ethnologist, born in New York State; at 24 was geologist to an exploring expedition undertaken by General Cass to...
	www.poemhunter.com /henry-rowe/resources (709 words)

	Henry Rowe Schoolcraft Papers (Library of Congress)
		The greater part of the collection consists of the correspondence of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft and his wives, Jane Johnston and Mary E. Howard, and notes, drafts, and manuscripts of Schoolcraft's published and unpublished articles, manuscript magazines (The Cricket, The Muzziniegun, or Literary Voyager, and The Garland), poetry, books, speeches, lectures, government reports, and prospectuses.
		Schoolcraft also wrote about the past and future roles of the federal government toward the Indian, Indian hieroglyphics and picture writing, temperance and religion as practiced by the Indians, and Christian missionary work among the tribes.
		Cass," 1853 "On the death of William Henry Schoolcraft," 1827 "On the death of N. Carter," ca.
	www.loc.gov /rr/mss/text/schoolcr.html (4998 words)

	Michigan State University Press \| Notes on the Iroquois \| Henry Rowe Schoolcraft Philip P. Mason
		Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793—1864) was an American ethnologist, born near Albany, N.Y. He gave enormous impetus to the study of American Indian culture and may be regarded as the foremost pioneer...
		First published in 1846, Notes on the Iroquois is the result of a census that Henry Rowe Schoolcraft began in July 1845, of Native Americans living on reservations in central New York.
		Schoolcraft was especially interested in music, pottery, language, petroglyphs, burial mounds, and the tribal clan system.
	msupress.msu.edu /bookTemplate.php?bookID=98 (222 words)

	Henry Schoolcraft's Memoirs (83 of many) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Schoolcraft's 1832 Report on Trip to Lake Itasca (14 of 14)
		Schoolcraft, having, left her children at school, at Philadelphia and Princeton, remained pensive, and wrote the following lines in the Indian tongue, on parting from them, which I thought so just that I made a translation of them.
		Schoolcraft gave me, and they have excited very general interest.
	journals.aol.com /ondamitag/NorthernHistorically/entries/2006/10/07/henry-schoolcrafts-memoirs-83-of-many/2402 (3770 words)

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		Schoolcraft was born to an Ojibwa mother and an Irish father.
		Henry was very interested in the Ojibwa tribe and, with the help of Jane, he published “The Literary Voyaged” a magazine based almost wholly on the tribe.
		Her marriage to Henry was not a happy one and Jane endured the death of two children before she and Henry separated in late 1830.
	studentwebs.colstate.edu /morrell_angela/index.htm (278 words)

	Narrative journal of travels through the northwestern regions of the United States...performed as a member of the ...
		Henry Schoolcraft's account of the 1820 Cass-Doty expedition.
		Henry Rowe Schoolcraft was an explorer, Indian agent, and early ethnologist of Native American culture who joined an expedition organized by Gov. Cass of Michigan in 1819.
		Schoolcraft joined the expedition as a mineralogist, working alongside Gov. Cass and future Wisconsin Territorial Governor, James Duane Doty.
	www.wisconsinhistory.org /turningpoints/search.asp?id=238 (179 words)

	Henry R. Schoolcraft's 1857 DeSoto Trail Reconstruction
		Born in New York in 1793, Henry Schoolcraft became one of America's earliest writers on Native American culture and history.
		The effect on Schoolcraft's DeSoto trail positioning was, of course, a south and west displacement from reality.
		Few contemporary authors, of note William Sanders, continue to expound Schoolcraft's virtue by using displaced Native American tribal names to track Hernando de Soto, thereby making the same mistakes which Dr. Swanton's Commission did.
	www.vaca.com /schoolcraft-1857.html (279 words)

	Place names (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		According to others, it is not a Native American name, but rather, believed to have been created by Henry Schoolcraft with "al" for "the" and "pinai" for partridge or "penaissee" for bird.
		Henry Schoolcraft named the "Iron River" because "Iron ore and [iron] pyrites are said to abound upon its banks."
		This Henry Schoolcraft creation is believed to be a combination of two Ojibwa words, "ossin" (stone) and "muskoda" (prairie).
	www.geo.msu.edu /geo333/placenames.html (3710 words)

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