Books with author Henry R. Schoolcraft

This book is an illustrated version of the original The American Indians by Henry R. Schoolcraft. “Our second day's journey yielded but little to remark. We travelled diligently along a rough mountainous path, across a sterile tract called the Pinery. This tract is valuable only for its pine timber. It has neither farming land nor mineral wealth. Not a habitation of any kind was passed. We saw neither bird nor animal. The silence of desolation seemed to accompany us. It was a positive relief to the uniform sterility of the soil, and monotony of the prospect, to see at length, a valley before us. It was a branch of the Maromeg, or Merrimack, which is called by its original French term of Fourche á Courtois. We had travelled a distance of fourteen miles over these flinty eminences. The first signs of human habitation appeared in the form of enclosed fields. The sun sunk below the hills, as we entered this valley, and we soon had the glimpse of a dwelling. Some woodcock flew up as we hastened forward, and we were not long in waiting for our formal announcement in the loud and long continued barking of dogs.”

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Henry R. Schoolcraft immersed himself in the legends and lore of Native American Indians. For thirty years he lived among Indian tribes in the West and around the Great Lakes, where night after night he listened to master storytellers weave spellbinding tales around the dancing embers of lodge fires. Carefully chosen from the many legends Schoolcraft heard, this collection presents nineteen fables brimming with myth and magic. Originally part of the oral tradition and passed down to generations of Native American children, they have been lovingly written down to spark the imaginations of modern generations.Open the pages of this collection and enter a world where moccasins dance under a mysterious spell...where a little boy sets a snare for the burning sun...and where an old Toad Woman dares to steal a baby. Filled with unforgettable adventures readers of every age will cherish, The Enchanted Moccasins and Other Native American Legends includes such stories as:• Gray Eagle and His Five Brothers• Leelinau, the Lost Daughter• The Origin of the Robin• The Winter Spirit and His Visitor • He of the Little Shell• White Feather and the Six Giants...and many others. Historically rich and exciting, this treasury opens new vistas onto ancient Indian lore.

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Henry R. Schoolcraft immersed himself in the legends and lore of Native American Indians. For thirty years he lived among Indian tribes in the West and around the Great Lakes, where night after night he listened to master storytellers weave spellbinding tales around the dancing embers of lodge fires. Carefully chosen from the many legends Schoolcraft heard, this collection presents nineteen fables brimming with myth and magic. Originally part of the oral tradition and passed down to generations of Native American children, they have been lovingly written down to spark the imaginations of modern generations.Open the pages of this collection and enter a world where moccasins dance under a mysterious spell...where a little boy sets a snare for the burning sun...and where an old Toad Woman dares to steal a baby. Filled with unforgettable adventures readers of every age will cherish, The Enchanted Moccasins and Other Native American Legends includes such stories as:• Gray Eagle and His Five Brothers• Leelinau, the Lost Daughter• The Origin of the Robin• The Winter Spirit and His Visitor • He of the Little Shell• White Feather and the Six Giants...and many others. Historically rich and exciting, this treasury opens new vistas onto ancient Indian lore.

This is a compendium of oral legends and tales passed down by various Native American tribes, with an emphasis on the famous myth of Hiawatha. From the preface: “There is but one consideration of much moment necessary to be premised respecting these legends and myths. It is this: they are versions of oral relations from the lips of the Indians, and are transcripts of the thought and invention of the aboriginal mind. As such, they furnish illustrations of Indian character and opinions on subjects which the ever-cautious and suspicious minds of this people have, heretofore, concealed. They place the man altogether in a new phasis. They reflect him as he is. They show us what he believes, hopes, fears, wishes, expects, worships, lives for, dies for. They are always true to the Indian manners and customs, opinions and theories.”

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Whether my bones are to rest in this great valley, or west of the Cordilleras, or the Rocky Mountains, I know not. I shall often think of the silver Iosco, the farther I go from it. To use a native metaphor, My foot is on the path, and the word, is onward! "The spider taketh hold with her hands," Solomon says, "and is in king's palaces." Truly, a man should accomplish, by diligence, as much as a spider.Pittsburgh was, even then, a busy manufacturing town, filled with working machinery, steam engines, hammers, furnaces, and coal smoke. I visited Mr. O'Hara, and several other leading manufacturers. They made glass, bar iron, nails, coarse pottery, castings, and many other articles, which filled its shops and warehouses, and gave it a city-like appearance. Every chimney and pipe, perpendicular or lateral, puffed out sooty coal smoke, and it required some dexterity to keep a clean collar half a day. I met ladies who bore this impress of the city, on their morning toilet. I took lodgings at Mrs.

TO PROF. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. SIR:— Permit me to dedicate to you, this volume of Indian myths and legends, derived from the story-telling circle of the native wigwams. That they indicate the possession, by the Vesperic tribes, of mental resources of a very characteristic kind—furnishing, in fact, a new point from which to judge the race, and to excite intellectual sympathies, you have most felicitously shown in your poem of Hiawatha. Not only so, but you have demonstrated, by this pleasing series of pictures of Indian life, sentiment, and invention, that the theme of the native lore reveals one of the true sources of our literary independence. Greece and Rome, England and Italy, have so long furnished, if they have not exhausted, the field of poetic culture, that it is, at least, refreshing to find both in theme and metre, something new. Very truly yours, HENRY R. SCHOOLCRAFT CONTENTS Hiawatha; or, Manabozho Paup-puk-keewiss Osseo; or, the Son of the Evening Star Kwasind; or, the fearfully Strong Man The Jeebi; or, Two Ghosts Iagoo Shawondasee Puck Wudj Ininees; or, the Vanishing Little Men Pezhiu and Wabose; or, the Lynx and Hare Peboan and Seegwun. An Allegory of Winter and Spring Mon-daw-min; or, the Origin of Indian Corn Nezhik-e-wa-wa-sun; or, the Lone Lightning The Ak Uk O Jeesh; or, the Groundhog Family Opeechee; or, the Origin of the Robin Shingebiss. An Allegory of Self-reliance The Star Family; or, the Celestial Sisters Ojeeg Annung; or, the Summer-Maker Chileeli; or, the Red Lover Sheem, the forsaken Boy, or Wolf Brother Mishemokwa; or, the War with the Gigantic Bear wearing the precious prize of the Necklace of Wampum, or the Origin of the Small Black Bear The Red Swan Tau-wau-chee-hezkaw; or, the White Feather Pauguk, and the mythological interpretation of Hiawatha Iëna, the Wanderer; or, Magic Bundle Mishosha; or, the Magician of Lake Superior Peeta Kway, the Foam-Woman Pah-hah-undootah, the Red Head The White Stone Canoe Onaiazo, the Sky-Walker. A Legend of a Visit to the Sun Bosh-kwa-dosh; or, the Mastodon The Sun-Catcher; or, the Boy who set a Snare for the Sun. A Myth of the Origin of the Dormouse Wa-wa-be-zo-win; or, the Swing on the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior Mukakee Mindemoea; or, the Toad-Woman Eroneniera; or, an Indian Visit to the Great Spirit The Six Hawks; or, Broken Wing Weeng, the Spirit of Sleep Addik Kum Maig; or, the Origin of the White Fish Bokwewa; or, the Humpback Magician Aggodagauda and his Daughter; or, the Man with his Leg tied up Iosco; or, the Prairie Boys' Visit to the Sun and Moon The Enchanted Moccasins Leelinau. A Chippewa Tale Wild Notes of the Pibbigwun

Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (March 28, 1793 – December 10, 1864) was an 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, herself a daughter of Ojibwa war chief Waubojeeg. 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 to 1857. He married again in 1847, to Mary Howard, from a slaveholding family in South Carolina. In 1860 she published the bestselling The Black Gauntlet, an anti-Uncle Tom's Cabin novel.