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Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

1793–1864

Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793–1864) was an American ethnologist and Indian agent, born near Albany, New York, who wrote widely on the Ojibwe and other Native peoples.

Griswold included 4 of his poems in The Poets and Poetry of America (16th edition, Philadelphia: Parry & McMillan, 1855), the anthology from which the poems here are taken.

Poems (4)

  1. From "The White Fish"
  2. From "Likes and Dislikes"
  3. Geehale: An Indian Lament
  4. The Birchen Canoe

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