Henry R. Schoolcraft
| Henry R. Schoolcraft LLD | |||||||||
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| Born | 1793 | ||||||||
| Died | 1864 | ||||||||
| Residence | American Ethnological Society | ||||||||
| Occupation | legal | ||||||||
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see also Edward Robinson and Prof. Turner, all of the American Ethnological Society
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Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (March 28, 1793 – December 10, 1864) was an American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist, noted for his early studies of Native American cultures, as well as for his 1832 expedition to the source of the Mississippi River. He is also noted for his major six-volume study of American Indians in the 1850s.
2nd vice president of AES
Publications
External Publications
• A View of the Lead-Mines of Missouri, including Observations on the Mineralogy and Geology of Missouri and Arkansas (New York, 1819)
• “Transallegania, or the Groans of Missouri,” a poem (1820)
• Journal of a Tour in the Interior of Missouri and Arkansas (1820)
• Travels from Detroit to the Sources of the Mississippi with an Expedition under Lewis Cass (Albany, 1821)
• Travels in the Central Portions of Mississippi Valley (New York, 1825)
• “The Rise of the West, or a Prospect of the Mississippi Valley,” a poem (Detroit, 1827)
• “Indian Melodies,” a poem (1830)
• The Man of Bronze (1834)
• Iosco, or the Vale of Norma (Detroit, 1834)
• Narrative of an Expedition Through the Upper Mississippi River to Itasca Lake (New York, 1834)
• “Helderbergia, or the Apotheosis of the Heroes of the Anti-Rent War,” an anonymous poem (Albany, 1835)
• Algic Researches, a book of Indian allegories and legends (2 vols., 1839)
• Cyclopædia indianensis, of which only a single number was issued (1842)
• “Alhalla, or the Land of Talladega,” a poem published under the pen-name “Henry Rowe Colcraft” (1843)
• Oneota, or Characteristics of the Red Race of America (1844-5) Republished as The Indian and his Wigwam (1848)
• Report on Aboriginal Names and the Geographical Terminology of New York (1845)
• Plan for Investigating American Ethnology (1846)
• Notes on the Iroquois, containing his report on the Six Nations (Albany, 1846; enlarged editions, New York, 1847 and 1848)
• The Red Race of America (1847)
• Notices of Antique Earthen Vessels from Florida (1847)
• Address on Early American History (New York, 1847)
• Outlines of the Life and Character of Gen. Lewis Cass (Albany, 1848)
• Bibliographical Catalogue of Books, Translations of the Scriptures, and other Publications in the Indian Tongues of the United States (Washington, 1849)
• American Indians, their History, Condition, and Prospects (Auburn, 1850)
• Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers, 1812 to 1842 (Philadelphia, 1851)
• Historical and Statistical Information respecting the History, Condition, and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States, with illustrations by Capt. Seth Eastman, published by authority of congress, which appropriated nearly $30,000 a volume for the purpose (6 vols., 1851-7) He had collected material for two additional volumes, but the government suddenly suspended the publication of the work.
• Scenes and Adventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas, a revised edition of his first book of travel (1853)
• Summary Narrative of an Exploratory Expedition to the Sources of the Mississippi River in 1820, resumed and completed by the Discovery of its Origin in Itasca Lake in 1832 (1854)
• The Myth of Hiawatha, and other Oral Legends (1856).
• Mentor L. Williams, ed., Narrative Journal of travels Through the Northwestern Regions of the United States Extending from Detroit through the Great Chain of the American Lakes to the Sources of the Mississippi River in the year 1820, East Lansing, Michigan: The Michigan State College Press, 1953.
The Indian Fairy-Book, from Original Legends (New York, 1855), was compiled from notes that he furnished to the editor, Cornelius Mathews
House Publications
On the American Languages. Not printed [22 nov 1845]
