Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers: With Brief Notices of Passing Events, Facts, and Opinions, A.D. 1812 to A.D. 1842Lippincott, Grambo and Company, 1851 - 703 Seiten This is the autobiographical account of an explorer, government administrator, and scholar whose researches into the language and customs of the Chippewa and other Native American peoples of the Great Lakes region are considered milestones in nineteenth-century ethnography. After a childhood in Hamilton, New York, Schoolcraft gained attention for the reports and journals he wrote on trips west to explore mineral deposits in Arkansas, Missouri, and the old Northwest. Later, he joined the Cass expedition to the Lake Superior region, where he served as an Indian agent in St. Mary (Sault Ste. Marie) from 1822 to 1836. During that time, he continued to make regular exploratory journeys. On one of these, in 1832, he located the Mississippi River's source at Lake Itasca, Minnesota. From 1836 to 1841, Schoolcraft served as Michigan's superintendent of Indian Affairs and helped to bring about a treaty with the Ojibwa (1836), who as a result relinquished their claims to most of northern Michigan. Schoolcraft's memoirs are noteworthy for their detailed geographic, geological, political, military, folkloric, historical, and ethnographic information. Married to a woman of Native American background, he was sympathetic to certain aspects of the Indian societies he encountered. Nevertheless, he saw the sweep of new settlers into Indian lands as inevitable, and accepted as necessary the removal of Native peoples beyond the advancing boundaries of the United States. Schoolcraft believed that soldiers, diplomats, federal officials, and missionaries could do their jobs more effectively if they learned native languages and understood Indian customs. These motives, along with his literary aspirations, gave rise to his explorations of Indian cultural life. He discusses Indian myths and legends at length and talks about how he transformed them into his own Algic Researches (1839), the work that inspired Longfellow's "Hiawatha." Schoolcraft also corresponded or visited with Washington Irving, Thomas Jefferson, Albert Gallatin, and many of the era's other leading intellectuals, and details his conversations with them. |
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... specimen of a fossil tree , completely converted to stone , of which he prepared a de- scriptive memoir , which had the effect further to direct the public mind to geological phenomena . We are not prepared to pursue minutely these ...
... specimen of a fossil tree , completely converted to stone , of which he prepared a de- scriptive memoir , which had the effect further to direct the public mind to geological phenomena . We are not prepared to pursue minutely these ...
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... specimens while they culled shrubs and flowers . In this way , and by lending a ready hand at the " sweeps " and at the oars whenever there was a pinch , I made myself agree- able . The worst thing we encountered was rain , against ...
... specimens while they culled shrubs and flowers . In this way , and by lending a ready hand at the " sweeps " and at the oars whenever there was a pinch , I made myself agree- able . The worst thing we encountered was rain , against ...
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... specimens of the various minerals of the country . Some of my excursions were made on foot , some on horseback , and some in a single wagon . I unwittingly killed a horse in these trips , in swimming a river , when the animal was over ...
... specimens of the various minerals of the country . Some of my excursions were made on foot , some on horseback , and some in a single wagon . I unwittingly killed a horse in these trips , in swimming a river , when the animal was over ...
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... specimen ' of the country , namely , the ague and fever , which I endured for two months , and until the com- mencement of cold weather . " I continued but three weeks at the Springs ( Hot Springs of Wachita ) ; could I have spent the ...
... specimen ' of the country , namely , the ague and fever , which I endured for two months , and until the com- mencement of cold weather . " I continued but three weeks at the Springs ( Hot Springs of Wachita ) ; could I have spent the ...
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... specimen of which I have with me ; you can examine it when you visit this country . The next rock crystal , of which I have two specimens . * The fourth is alum , of which I procured a small quantity , as I did not visit the cave where ...
... specimen of which I have with me ; you can examine it when you visit this country . The next rock crystal , of which I have two specimens . * The fourth is alum , of which I procured a small quantity , as I did not visit the cave where ...
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Seite 141 - When an objection raised against his inscription for Shakspeare was defended by the authority of Patrick, he replied, ' horresco referens,' that he would allow the publisher of a dictionary to know the meaning of a single word, but not of two words put together.
Seite 677 - The Thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the Cedar, saying, give thy daughter to my son to wife : and there passed by a wild beast and
Seite 584 - committed the error of attempting to remove the Seminoles, when their lands were not required for agricultural purposes, when they were not in the way of the white inhabitants, and when the greater portion of their country was an unexplored wilderness, of the interior of which we were as ignorant as of the interior of China.
Seite 153 - the writer conceals penury of thought and want of novelty, often from the reader, and often from himself." The Indian certainly has a very pompous way of expressing a common thought.
Seite 148 - The first words of men, like their first ideas, had an immediate reference to sensible objects, and that in after days, when they began to discern with their intellect, they took those words which they found already made, and transferred them, by metaphor, to intellectual conceptions.'*
Seite 223 - To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm than all the gloss of art.
Seite 166 - Lo, the winter is past, the flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.
Seite 131 - that nothing can supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will render knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
Seite 133 - is forced upon us by experience. He that reads many books must compare one opinion, or one style with another, and when he compares must necessarily distinguish, reject,
Seite 461 - more than all, with the families of the officers of the military and civil service of the government. In such a mass of diverse elements the French language, the Algonquin, in several dialects, and the English, are employed. And among the uneducated, no small mixture of all are brought into vogue in the existing vocabulary. To