Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864

LC control no.	n 50002814
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Colcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864 H. R. S. (Henry Rowe Schoolcraft), 1793-1864 HRS (Henry Rowe Schoolcraft), 1793-1864 S., H. R. (Henry Rowe Schoolcraft), 1793-1864 Schoolcraft, Henry R. (Henry Rowe), 1793-1864 Schoolcraft, H. R. (Henry Rowe), 1793-1864
Located	Sault Sainte Marie (Mich.) Mackinac Island (Mich.) New York (N.Y.) Washington (D.C.)
Birth date	1793-03-28
Death date	1864-12-10
Place of birth	Guilderland (N.Y. : Town)
Field of activity	Ojibwa Indians Indians of North America
Profession or occupation	Author Indian agent Ethnographer Geographer
Found in	His Archives of aboriginal knowledge, 1860: t.p. (Henry R. Schoolcraft) His The rise of the West, 1830: t.p. (H.R.S.) His Alhalla, 1843: t.p. (Henry Rowe Colcraft) [info from InH] Wikipedia, July 22, 2015 (heading: Henry Schoolcraft; Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (March 28, 1793--December 10, 1864); born in 1793 in Guilderland, Albany County, New York; American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist, noted for his early studies of Native American cultures, as well as for his 1832 expedition to the source of the Mississippi River. He is also noted for his major six-volume study of American Indians in the 1850s; he served as a United States Indian agent for a period beginning in 1822 in Michigan, where he married Jane Johnston, mixed-race daughter of a prominent Scotch-Irish fur trader and Ojibwa mother, who was daughter of a war chief. She taught him the Ojibwe language and much about her maternal culture. They had several children, two of whom survived past childhood. She is now recognized as the first Native American literary writer in the United States. In 1846 the widower Schoolcraft was commissioned by Congress for a major study, known as Indian Tribes of the United States, which was published in six volumes from 1851-1857. He married again in 1847, to Mary Howard, from a slaveholding family in South Carolina. In 1860 she published an "anti-Tom novel," in response to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, and it was a bestseller. assigned in 1822 to Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, as its first US Indian agent; elected to the legislature of the Michigan Territory, where he served from 1828 to 1832; After his territory for Indian Affairs was greatly increased in 1833, Schoolcraft and his wife Jane moved to Mackinac Island; When the Whig Party came to power in 1841, Schoolcraft lost his political position as Indian agent. He and Jane moved to New York) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Schoolcraft> Larned, William Trowbridge. Native American tales [SR]: cover frame (stories for children) Kobo website, Feb. 28, 2023 (Native American tales / by William Trowbridge Larned, H.R. Schoolcraft; narrated by Chip; Ashby Navis & Tennyson Media Publisher; 2022)
Associated language	eng