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Schoolcraft (II. 1\.) — ('fmtiiiiird. 



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" In the following pages theattenii)t has been 

 made to place before, the public in a convenient 

 and accessil)le form the results of the life-long 

 labors in the Held of aboriginal research of the 

 late Henry R. Schoolcraft.' 



Cha])ter 11, Language, literature, and pic;- 

 tograiihy, vol. 1. pp. 47-63, contains general 

 remarks on the Indian languages. 



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Henry K"We Schoolcraft, ethmdogist, l)orn in 

 IWatervliet! Albany county. N. Y., March 28, 

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

 1864. Was educated at Middlel>nry C(dlege, 

 Vermont, and at Union, where ho pursued the 

 studies of chemistry and mineralogy. In 

 1817 '18 he traveled in Missouri and Arkansas, 

 and returned with a large collection of geolog- 

 ical and niineralogical sjx'cimens. In 1820 h(^ 

 was appointed geidogist to (Jen. Lewis Cass's 

 exploring expediticm to Lake .Superior and the 

 headwaters of Mississippi River. He was seci-e- 

 tary of a conuni.ssion to treat with the Indians 

 atChicago, and, after a.jonrney through Illinois 

 and along AV abash and Miami rivers, was in 

 1822 uppoiuted Indian agent for the tribes of 



Schoolcraft (H. Iv.) — Continued. 



the lake region, (-stablishing himself at Sanit 

 .Sainte Marie, and afterward at Mackinaw, 

 where, in 1823, he married .lane .lohnston, 

 granddaughter of WabooJ(!eg, a noted Ojibway 

 chief, who had received her ediuation in 

 Euro)ie. In 1H2K lie founded the Michigan his- 

 torical society, ami in 1831 the -Mgic society. 

 From 1828 till 1832 he was a nn^mber of the ter- 

 ritorial legislature of Michigan. In 1832heledji 

 government expedition, which followed the Mis- 

 sissijtpi River uj) to its .sonrct^ in Itasca Lake. 

 In 1836 he negotiated a treaty with the Indians 

 on tht< ujiper lakes for the cession to the United 

 States of 16,000,000 a<Tes of their lands. He 

 was then appointed acting superintendent of 

 Indian affairs, and in IS.'iOehief disbu7'si7ig:igent 

 for the nortliern di']>artmenl. On his ictuiii 

 from Europe in 1842 he made a tour throu;;h 

 w«!stern Virginia, Ohio, and Canada. He was 

 ai>pointed by the New Yoik lei;islatnre in 184.'i 

 acommissionerto take the census of the Indians 

 in the State, and collect information concerning 

 the .Six Nation.s. After thi) i)erformance of 

 this task. Congress authorized him, on March 3, 

 1847, to obtain through the Indian bureau 

 reports relating to all the Indian tribes of tlie 

 country, and to collate and edit tlie information. 

 In this work he spent the remaining years of 

 his lU'r. Through his intlnence many laws 

 were enacted for the ])rotection and benefit of 

 the Indians. Nniuerou.s scientific societies in 

 the United .States and ?!iiroi)c elecleil liim to 

 membership, and the University of (tcneva 

 gave him the degree of LL.D. in 1846. Ht; was 

 the author of nnmerotis poems, le(:ture8, and 

 rejiorts on Indian subjects, besides thirty-one 

 larger works. Two of his lectures before the 

 .VIgi<- society at netroit on the •'(irammatii-al 

 Conslruction of the Indian Langua^;es " were 

 translated into French by I'eter S. Duponceau, 

 and gained for their author a gold medal fiom 

 the French institute. . . . 



To the five vol times of Indian researches <'om- 

 piled under the direct ion of the war dei)artnient 

 he added a sixth, containing t he post -Columbian 

 history of the Indians and of their relations 

 with Europeans (Philadelidiia. 18.')7). Ht^ had 

 (•(dlected material for two additiitnal vcdumes, 

 but the government suddenly suspended the 

 )iublicali<m of the work. — Appleton'i Cyclop, of 

 A m. Bioij. 



Schott (W.) lleher ethnographische 

 Ergebnisse der Sagoskinschen Reise, 

 von W. Schott. 



InErinan(A.), Archiv fiir wissenschaflliche 

 Kuude von Riissland, vol. 7, pp. 480-512, Berlin, 

 1H49, 8'5. 



Vocabuliiry of the Inkilik and Inkalit-Ingel- 

 mut (from Zagoskin), pp. 481-487. 



Scouler {Dr. John). Ob.servations on 

 the indigenous tribes of tlie X. W. 

 coast of America, liy John Scouler, 

 M.D., F.L. S., &.C. 



