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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE 



Schoolcraft (H. R.) — Continued, 

 tions, and Mythology, | of the | Indian 

 Tribes of the United States | by | Henry 

 R. Schoofcraft, LL. D. | With Illustra- 

 tions. I Oupendun ih ieu muzzinyegun 

 un. — Algonquin. | In six volumes. | 

 Volume I [-VI]. | 



Philadelphia: | J. B. Lippiucott & 

 Co. 1 1860. 



Engraved title : Information | respecting the 

 I History, Condition and Prospects | of the | 

 Indian Tribes of the United States: | Collected 

 and prepared under the | Bureau of Indian 

 Affairs | By Henry E. vSchoolcraft L. L. D. | 

 Mem: Royal Geo. Society, London. Boyal An- 

 tiquarian Society. Copenhagen. Ethnological 

 Society, Paris, &c. &c. | Illustrated by | Cap.' 

 S. Eastman, U. S. A. and other eminent artists. | 

 [Vignette.] | Published by authority of Con- 

 gress. I 



Philadelphia : | J. B. Lippincott &. Co. 



6 vols, maps and plates, 4°. 



This edition agrees in the text page for page 

 ■with the original titled above, and contains in 

 addition an index to each volume. 



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Partially reprinted with title as follows : 



[ ] The I Indian tribes] of the] United 



States : | their [history, antiquities, cus- 

 toms, religion, arts, language, | tradi- 

 tions, oral legends, and myths. I Edited 

 by I Francis S.Drake. | Illustrated with 

 one hundred fine engravings on st(^e]. 

 I In t-wo volumes. | Vol. I[-II]. | 



Philadelphia: | J. B. Lippincott & 

 CO. I London: 16 Southampton street, 

 Covent Garden. | 1884. 



2 vols.: portrait 1 1. title verso copyright 

 notice 1 1. preface pp. 3-5, contents pp. 7-8, list 

 of plates pp. 9-10, introduction pp. 11-24, text 

 pp. 25-458; frontispiece 1 1. title verso copy- 

 right notice 1 1. contents pp. 3-0, list of plates 

 p. 7, text pp. 9-445, index pp. 447-455, plates, 4°. 



' 'In the following pages the attempt has been 

 made to place before the piiblic in a convenient 

 and accessible form the results of the life-long 

 labors in the Held of aboriginal research of the 

 late Honry R. Schoolcraft." 



Chapter ii. Language, literature, and pic- 

 tography, ^'ol. 1, pp. 47-63, contains general 

 remarks on the Indian languages. 



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Priced by Clarke & co. 1886, no. 6376, $25. 



Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, ethnologist, born in 

 [Watervliet] Albany County, N. T., March 28, 

 1793, died in Washington, D. C, December 10, 

 1864. Was educated at Middlebury College, 

 Vermont, and at Union, wliere he pursued the 

 studies of chemistry and mineralogy. Inl817-'18 

 he traveled in Missouri and Arkansas, and 

 returned with a largo collection of geological 

 and mineralogical specimens. In 1820 he was 

 appointed geologist to Gen. Lewis Cass's explor- 



Schoolcraft (H. R.) — Continued. 



iug expedition to Lake Superior and the head- 

 waters of Mississippi River. He was secre- 

 tary of a commission to treat with the Indians 

 at Chicago, and, after a journey through Illi- 

 nois and along "Wabash and Miami rivers, was 

 in 1822 appointed Indian agent for the tribes 

 of the lake region, establishing himself at 

 Sault Sainte Marie, and afterward at Mack- 

 inaw, wliere, in 1823, he married Jane Johnston, 

 granddaughter of "Waboojeeg, a noted Ojibway 

 chief, who had received lier education in Europe. 

 In 1828hefoundpdtlie Michigan historical soci- 

 ety and in 18^1 the Algio society. From 1828 till 

 1832 he was a member of the territorial legisla- 

 ture of Michig.in. In 1832 he led a government 

 expedition, which followed the Mississippi 

 River up to its source in Itasca Lake. In 1836 

 he negotiated a treaty with the Indians on the 

 upper lakes for the cession to the United States 

 of 16,000,000 acres of their lands. He was then 

 appointed acting superintendent of Indian 

 affairs, and in 1839 chief disbursing ag(^nt for 

 the nortliern department. On his return from 

 Europe in 1842 he made a tour through western 

 Virginia, Ohio, and Canada. He was appointed 

 by the ISfew York legislature in 1845 a commis- 

 sioner to take the census of the Indians in tlie 

 State and collect information concerning the 

 Sis Nations. After the performance of this 

 task. Congress authorized him, on March 3, 1847, 

 to obtain through the Indian bureau reports 

 relating to all the Indian tribes of the country 

 and to collate and edit tlie information. In this 

 work he spent the remaining years of his life. 

 Through his influence many laws were enacted 

 for the protection and benefit of the Indians. 

 Xumerous scientific societies in the United 

 States and Europe elected him to membership, 

 and tlie University of Geneva gave him the 

 degree of LL.D. in 1846. He was the author of 

 numerous poems, lectures, and reports on 

 Indian subjects, besides thirty-one larger 

 works. Two of his lectures before the Algic 

 society at Detroit on the " Grammatical Con- 

 struction of the Indian Languages" were trans- 

 lated into French by Peter S. Duponceau and 

 gained for their author a gold medal from the 

 French institute. . . . To the five volumes 

 of Indian researches compiled under the direc- 

 ti(m of the war department he added a sixth, 

 containing tlie post-Columbian history of tlie 

 Indians and of their relations with Europeans 

 (Philadelphia, 1857). Hehad collected material 

 for two additional volumes, but the govern- 

 ment suddenly suspended the publication of 

 the work. — Ap2>leton's Cyclo2). of Am. Biog. 



Schwapmuth. See Shiwapmuk. 



Schwoyelpi. See Skoyelpi. 



Scouler (Dr. John). Observations on the 

 indigenous tribes of the N. W. coast of 

 America. By John Scouler, M. D., F. 

 L. S., &c. 



In Royal Geog. Soc. of London, Jour. vol. 11, 

 pp. 215-251. London, 1841, 8°. (Geological Sur- 

 vey.) 



