Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793–1864)
Autore di The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians
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Opere di Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians (1856) 64 copie
The Enchanted Moccasins and Other Native American Legends (Dover Children's Classics) (2007) 27 copie
Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers (1978) 21 copie
The American Indians Their History, Condition and Prospects, from Original Notes and Manuscripts (2012) 13 copie
Information respecting the history, condition and prospects of the Indian tribes of the United States: collected and… (2006) 11 copie
The Indian in his wigwam : or, Characteristics of the red race of America ; from original notes and manuscripts (1848) 7 copie
Travels in the central portions of the Mississippi Valley : comprising observations on its mineral geography, internal… (1975) 7 copie
Narrative journal of travels through the northwestern regions of the United States; extending from Detroit through the… (2018) 5 copie
Narrative of an expedition through the upper Mississippi to Itasca Lake, the actual source of this river; embracing an… (2012) 5 copie
Oneóta, or Characteristics of the red race of America. From original notes and manuscripts (2012) 4 copie
Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas (2011) 3 copie
The Indian Tribes of the United States: Their History, Antiquities, Customs, Religion, Arts, Language, Traditions, Oral… (2012) 3 copie
Incentives to the Study of the Ancient Period of American History An address, delivered before the New York Historical… (2012) 3 copie
Historical and Statistical Information Respecting the History, Condition and Prospects of The Indian Tribes of The… (1851) 2 copie
Journal of a Tour Into the Interior of Missouri and Arkansaw: From Potosi, or Mine a Burton, in Missouri Territory, in… (2017) 2 copie
Western Scenes and Reminiscences Together with Thrilling Legends and Traditions of the Red Men of the Forest (2012) 2 copie
Report of the aboriginal names and geographical terminology of the state of New York. Part I.--Valley of the Hudson.… (2009) 2 copie
Information respecting the history, condition and prospects of the Indian tribes of the United States. Part V (1855) 2 copie
The Myth of Hiawatha and Other Oral Legends: The Source of Longfellow's Song of Hiawatha (2010) 1 copia
Information Respecting The History, Condition And Prospects Of The Indian Tribes Of The United States Part IV (2014) 1 copia
Four autographed letters signed to George Folsom, President of the American Ethnological Society. 1 copia
The Indian Tribes Of The United States: Their History Antiquities, Customs, Religion, Arts, Language, Traditions, Oral… (2022) 1 copia
Algic Researches, Comprising Inquiries Respecting the Mental Characteristics of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 of 2… (2012) 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Altri nomi
- Scoolcraft, Henry Rowe
- Data di nascita
- 1793-03-28
- Data di morte
- 1864-12-10
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C., USA
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Guilderland, Albany County, New York, USA
- Relazioni
- Schoolcraft, Jane Johnston
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- 60
- Utenti
- 405
- Popolarità
- #60,014
- Voto
- 3.6
- Recensioni
- 5
- ISBN
- 79
The 1820 expedition was just before white settlement in most of these areas and Schoolcraft is best when describing the habits of all the Indian tribes he encounters. Schoolcraft’s prejudices aren’t, of course, concealed. On his return journey he passes down the Fox river through Green Bay (then part of Michigan territory), and shares with us, The inhabitants are, with few exceptions, French, who have intermarried with Indian women, and are said generally, to be indolent, gay, intemperate, and illiterate; but I cannot speak from personal observation.
Schoolcraft refers to various Indian spiritual beliefs as pretense and also denies that they have any religion.
In a remarkable display of chutzpah (not an Indian term), Schoolcraft’s party had landed at La Petit Corbeau which I figure to have been about 27 miles downriver from what is now downtown Minneapolis where they were welcomed by a band of about 200 Sioux Indians. They were addressed by the band’s leader and presented with a large amount of corn. The visitors noticed that there was another ceremony in an adjacent cabin. They were told that this was the celebration of an annual feast and that strangers were not permitted to attend. Schoolcraft got Governor Cass to intercede and they were admitted. Schoolcraft proceeds to describe the ceremony in detail and then to tell us how incredibly boring he found it! I wonder what his church services were like at home.
When traveling in search of the source of the Mississippi river, all travel was by canoe with frequent portages measured in the number of pauses required during them. The mosquitoes were as bad then as they are now, but there was no Off! and you couldn’t stop for a burger at the air-conditioned Red Cow in Minneapolis. The trip was made about 70 years before the germ theory of disease was widely accepted, so even if there were an infectious illness and masks were available, people might not even have worn them! When reaching Chicago, Schoolcraft describes, The village consists of ten or twelve dwelling houses, with an aggregate population, of probably, sixty souls. Changes in spelling are occasionally apparent and remind us of the Indian origin of many place names. He travels on the Ousconsing river. He passes the mouth of the Milacky river where there are two American families and a village of Pottowatomies. Along the eastern shore of Lake Michigan he sees the Kikalemazo and Maskagon rivers. I was also reminded that the prefix Mich or Mis means great or big in the Algonquian languages and is the root of Mississippi, Michigan, Michilimackinac, etc. The early 19th century was a time of high variability in English spelling, at least in the US, and although I don’t know if it was in the original manuscript, Schoolcraft uses the term embassadors, refers to the gesticulation time of the Bison(!), and mentions some animals eating muscles.
There are also published accounts of Schoolcraft’s journals for his second trip to find the source of the Mississippi (The Lake Itsaca trip. After this trip I think he claimed that Lake Cass was the source.) and of his trip into the wilds of Missouri and Arkansas. These e-books are available for free, but I sometimes purchase the 99 cent Amazon versions since they tend to have had better OCR scanning and some organization. In this case several of Schoolcraft’s drawings were referred to but missing, there were periodic probable page numbers scanned into the body of the text, and a map of the trip mentioned by Schoolcraft was also missing. I consulted the Rand-McNally road atlas.… (altro)