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Schoolcraft, Jane Johnston, 1800-1842

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Personal name headingSchoolcraft, Jane Johnston, 1800-1842
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Variant(s)Bamewawagezhikaquay
Obabaamwewe-giizhigokwe
LocatedMackinac Island (Mich.) New York (N.Y.)
Birth date18000131
Death date18420522
Place of birthSault Sainte Marie (Mich.)
Place of deathAncaster (Ont.)
Field of activityPoetry
Profession or occupationPoets
Found inLibrary of Congress Manuscript Division for Schoolcraft, H.R. Papers, 1788-1906 (Jane Johnston Schoolcraft; 1st wife of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft)
The John Johnston family of Sault Ste. Marie, 1992: pp. 41-44 (Jane Johnston; b. at Sault Ste. Marie on 31 Jan. 1800; m. Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, 12 Oct. 1823; d. in Dundas, Ontario, 22 May 1842)
The sound the stars make rushing through the sky, c2007: CIP t.p. (Jane Johnston Stonecraft) intro. (Bamewawagezhikaquay (her Ojibwe name))
Wikipedia website, viewed 28 April 2023: Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, also known as Bamewawagezhikaquay... Her Ojibwa name can also be written as O-bah-bahm-wawa-ge-zhe-go-qua (Obabaamwewe-giizhigokwe in modern spelling)... born in Sault Ste. Marie in the upper peninsula of what is now the state of Michigan... Jane and Henry Schoolcraft moved to Mackinac Island in 1833... In 1841... the Schoolcrafts moved to New York City... [Jane] died in 1842 while visiting a married sister in Canada. She was buried at St. John's Anglican Church in what is now Ancaster, Ontario)
Associated languageeng oji