Friday, April 27, 2007

Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers



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Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793-1864) 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. His wife's knowledge on Native American legends shared with Schoolcraft formed in part the source material for Longfellow's epic poem, The Song of Hiawatha. Schoolcraft began his ethnological research in 1822 during his appointment as Indian a... More >>

Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers

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