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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.
The majority of the articles in the Voyager are anthropological in nature, and were written by Schoolcraft himself. Schoolcraft, an ethnologist who specialized in Native American culture, gathered most of the information necessary for the magazine from visiting Native American informants while he was working as the Indian Agent in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. [6]
Jane Johnston Schoolcraft has been recognized as the first Native American woman poet. Although the south side of the river became United States territory in 1797 after treaty settlements following the end of the American Revolutionary War, Johnston never became a US citizen. At the time, the border was a fluid area.
Erin is a color that is halfway between green and spring green on the color wheel. It is named after Erin, a poetic name for Ireland.. One of the earliest known uses of the word "erin" to describe a color appears in the poetry of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (1800–1842).
December – At Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, Henry Schoolcraft sets up a review called Literary Voyager, or Muzzeniegan. It includes poems and stories by his part-Ojibwe wife, Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, who thus becomes one of the first Native American literary professionals. [28]
Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (1800–1842) Philip Schultz (born 1945) Susan Polis Schutz (born 1944) James Schuyler (1923–1991) Delmore Schwartz (1913–1966) Patricia Roth Schwartz (born 1946) Armand Schwerner (1927–1999) Peter Seaton (1942–2010) Alan Seeger (1888–1916) Calvin Seerveld (born 1930) Frederick Seidel (born 1936) Hugh Seidman ...
Jane Johnston Schoolcraft writes the first known poems in the Ojibwe language. William Wordsworth granted an honorary Doctor of Civil Law degree by Durham University . December 13 - Irish-born Australian poet Eliza Hamilton Dunlop 's " The Aboriginal Mother " is first published, in The Australian newspaper, between the perpetrators of the Myall ...
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.