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Schoolcraft (H. R.) — Continued. 



Philadelphia : | Lippincott, Grambo, 

 and CO. | 1855. 



Half-title verso b^ank 1 1. map, title verso 

 copyright (dated 1854) 1 1. original dedication 

 (to John C. Calhoun, dated Albany, 1821) verso 

 blank 1 1. preface pp. vii-xiv, contents of both 

 expeditions pp. xv-xx, introduction pp. 17-23, 

 preliminary documents pp. 25-36, text of ex- 

 pedition of 1820 pp. 37-220, text of expedition 

 of 1832 pp. 221-274, appendixes pp. 275-588, 

 index pp. 589-596, two other maps, 8°. 



Etymology of the word Mississippi, p. 140; 

 of the Indian word for Wisconsin, p. 179.— List 

 of quadrupeds, birds, &c. in Algonquin, pp. 

 413-415. — Examination of the elementary struct- 

 ure of the Algonquin language as it appears in 

 the Chippewa tongue, pp. 442-447.— Observa- 

 tions on the grammatical structure and flexi- 

 bility of the Odjibwa substantive (Inquiries 1 

 aad 2), pp. 453-489.— Principles governing the 

 use of the Odjibwa noun-adjective (Inquiry 3), 

 pp. 489-502.— Some remarks respecting the ag- 

 glutinative position and properties of the pro- 

 noun (Inquiry 4), pp. 502-515.— Also explana- 

 tions of many local names of Indian origin 

 scattered through the volume and in the foot- 

 notes. 



Copies seen: British Museum, Congress, 

 Eames, Geological Survey, National Museum, 

 Trumbull. 



Utterances of Alalcol. By Henry R. 



Schoolcraft. 



In The Knickerbocker, or New- York Month- 

 ly Magazine, vol. 57, pp. 539-542, vol. 58, pp. 

 109-114, New York, 1861, 8°. (Eames.) 



Aboriginal nomenclature, vol, 58, pp. 109-112, 

 contains names of places in the State of New 

 York derived from the Mohegan and other Al- 

 gonquian languages. 

 Chippewa language. 



Manuscript, pp. 1-37, 4°, belonging to Dr. J. 

 G. Shea, Elizabeth, New Jersey. 



A reply to Gov. Cass's second set of inquiries ; 

 contains a vocabulary and grammatic notices. 



See Wheeler (C. H.) 



Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, ethnologist, born in 

 [Wateivliet] Albany county, N.Y., 28 March, 

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

 18G4. Was educated at Middlebury c liege, 

 Vermont, and at Union, where he pursued the 

 studies of chemistry and mineralogy. In 

 18I7-'18 he traveled in Missouri and Arkansas, 

 and returned with a large collection of geolog- 

 ical and mineralogical specimens. In 1820 he 

 was appointed geologist to Gen. Lewis Cass's 

 exploring expedition to Lake Superior and 

 the headwaters of Mississippi river. He was 

 secretary of a commission to treat with the In- 

 dians at Chicago, and, after a journey through 

 Illinois and along Wabash and Miami riv- 

 ers, was in 1822 appointed Indian agent for 

 the tribes of the lake region, establishing him- 

 self at Sault Sainte Marie, and afterward at 



Schoolcraft (H. R.) — Continued. 



Mackinaw, where, in 1823, he married Jane 

 Johnston, granddaughter of Waboojeeg, a 

 noted Ojibway chief, who had received her edu- 

 cation in Europe. In 1828 he founded the 

 Michigan historical society, and in 1831 the 

 Algic society. From 1828 till 1832 he was a 

 member of the territorial legislature of Mich- 

 igan. 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 agent for the northern 

 department. On his return from Europe in 

 1842 he made a tour through western Virginia, 

 Ohio, and Canada. He was appointed by the 

 New York legislature in 1845 a commissioner to 

 take the census of the Indians in the state, and 

 collect information concerning the Six Nations. 

 After the performance of this task, congress 

 authorized him, on 3 March, 1847, to obtain 

 through the Indian bureau reports relating to 

 all the Indian tribes of the country, and to col- 

 late and edit the 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. Numer- 

 ous scientific societies in the United States and 

 Europe elected him to membership, and the 

 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 Construction of the Indian 

 Languages" were translated into French by 

 Peter S. Duponceau, and gained for their author 

 a gold medal from the French institute. . . . 

 To the fl.ve volumes of Indian researches 

 compiled under the direction of the war depart- 

 ment he added a sixth, containing the post- 

 Columbian history of the Indians and of their 

 relations with Europeans (Philadelphia, 1857). 

 He had collected material for two additional 

 volumes, but the government suddenly sus- 

 pended the publication of the woT^.—Appleton'g 

 Cyclop, of Am. Biog. 



Schoolcraft {Mrs. Jane). [Translation 

 of an address in Chippewa.] 



In Schoolcraft (H.R), Travels in the central 

 portions of the Mississippi valley, pp, 433-434, 

 New York, 1825, 8°. 



A psalm, or supplication for mercy, 



and a confession of sin, addressed to 

 the author of life, in the Odjibwa- 

 Algouquin tongue. By the late Mrs. 

 Henry R. Schoolcraft. 



In Schoolcraft (H. R.), Oneota, or character- 

 istics of the red race of America, pp. 126-127, 

 New York and London, 1845, 8^. 



Odjibwa and English on opposite pages. 



