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c. 1772-1843
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George Johnston
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
Henry Wordsworth Longfellow
Indian removal
Indians in antebellum literature
Indigenous expulsion
Indigenous intellectual history 19th century
Indigenous literature
Indigenous literature 19th century
Indigenous literature history
Jane Johnston Schoolcraft
Margaret Fuller
Odawa literature 19th century
Ojibwe literature 19th century
Ozhaawshkodewikwe
savage-civilized narrative
settler colonialism in the U.S.
Song of Hiawatha
Waabojiig
William Miengun Johnston
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- ISBN 9781469678436
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 155 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 30 Apr 2024
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The children of an influential Ojibwe-Anglo family, Jane Johnston and her brother George were already accomplished writers when the Indian agent Henry Rowe Schoolcraft arrived in Sault Ste. Marie in 1822. Charged by Michigan's territorial governor with collecting information on Anishinaabe people, he soon married Jane, "discovered" the family's writings, and began soliciting them for traditional Anishinaabe stories. But what began as literary play became the setting for political struggle. Jane and her family wrote with attention to the beauty of Anishinaabe narratives and to their expression of an Anishinaabe world that continued to coexist with the American republic. But Schoolcraft appropriated the stories and published them as his own writing, seeking to control their meaning and to destroy their impact in service to the "civilizing" interests of the United States.
In this dramatic story, Maureen Konkle helps recover the literary achievements of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft and her kin, revealing as never before how their lives and work shed light on nineteenth-century struggles over the future of Indigenous people in the United States.
In this dramatic story, Maureen Konkle helps recover the literary achievements of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft and her kin, revealing as never before how their lives and work shed light on nineteenth-century struggles over the future of Indigenous people in the United States.
Maureen Konkle is associate professor of English at the University of Missouri.
