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Musical setting of poem by Jane Johnston Schoolcraft. University of Michigan. Archived 2021-04-24 at the Wayback Machine; Dave Stanaway and Susan Askwith. CD: John Johnston: His Life and Times in the Fur Trade Era. Borderland Records. Included is the song "Sweet Willy, My Boy", with lyrics taken from a poem written by Jane Johnston Schoolcraft.
In 1793, Johnston and his wife settled in the Sault to trade with the native residents there. [6] The couple had four sons and four daughters, including Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, who married notable author, explorer, and Native American culture expert Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. John Johnston was Justice of the Peace in Sault Ste Marie for many years.
The original section of this house was built by fur trader and Sault pioneer John Johnston in 1815, after his first house was burned by American troops in retaliation for Johnston's aid of British forces in the War of 1812. Johnston built an 1822 addition for his daughter Jane and her husband Henry Rowe Schoolcraft in 1822. In 1910, a tree fell ...
Scholars have established, however, that Leelinau was first used as a pen name by Schoolcraft's wife Jane Johnston Schoolcraft in writings for The Literary Voyager, a family magazine which she and her husband wrote together in the 1820s. [4] Jane Johnston was of Ojibwa and Scots-Irish descent, and wrote in Ojibwe and English.
Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (1800-1842), Native American author; Henry Schoolcraft (1793–1864), American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist, husband of Mary; Mary Howard Schoolcraft (1820-1878), American writer, wife of Henry; The following place names and geographic features in the United States are all named after Henry Schoolcraft:
From his wife Jane Johnston, Schoolcraft learned the Ojibwe language, as well as much of the lore of the tribe and its culture. Schoolcraft created The Muzzeniegun, or Literary Voyager, a family magazine which he and Jane produced in the winter of 1826–1827 and circulated among friends ("muzzeniegun" coming from Ojibwe mazina'igan meaning ...
Jane Johnston has been recognized as the first Native American literary writer and poet in the United States. In 2008, she was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame . Two other Johnston daughters also married prominent white men of the region; Anna Maria married Henry R. Schoolcraft's younger brother, James.
Scholars have established that "Leelinau" was first one of the pen names used by his wife Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, in writings for the Literary Voyager, a family magazine which she and her husband wrote together and circulated among friends in the 1820s. [5] Jane Johnston was of Ojibwa and Scots-Irish descent, and wrote in Ojibwe and English ...