Henry Schoolcraft

Henry Rowe Schoolcraft ( born March 28, 1793 in Guilderland, at that time belonging to Watervliet, Albany County, New York, † December 10, 1864 in Washington, DC) was an American explorer and ethnologist who was known to the source of the Mississippi River to found in 1832.

The first interests of Schoolcraft were stones and minerals, which led him in 1820 to a geological expedition to Lake Superior. He was then card manufacturer and state employees at the North West Frontier, near the Lake Superior. In 1822 he went as an Indian Agent to Michigan and in 1839 was appointed chief agents of the Indians of the northern departments. In 1832, he discovered the source of the Mississippi in a lake in Northern Minnesota which he called Lake Itasca, according to the Latin words caput ( head) and veritas ( truth ).

Schoolcraft was also interested in the American aborigines and wrote about their history, language, mythology, hieroglyphics, pictures, religions, etc. His main work is formed by the after conference proceedings undertaken and published at the expense of the Government Historical and statistical information respecting the history, condition, and prospects of the Indian tribes of the United States (6 vols, 336 copper plates ) Philadelphia ( 1851-1857 ).

Henry Rowe Schoolcraft in 1847 moved to Washington, where he died on 10 December 1864.

Works

  • Travels in the central portions of the Mississippi valley. (1825 )
  • Narrative of an Expedition through the Upper Mississippi to Itasca Lake. (1834 )
  • Algic researches. 2 vols New York ( 1839)
  • The myth of Hiawatha and other oral legends. Philadelphia ( 1856)
  • Oneota, or characteristics of the red race of America. New York ( 1844)
  • The Indian in his wigwam. (1848 )
  • Notes on the Iroquois. Albany ( 1946)
  • The red race of America. (1847 )
  • Personal memoirs of a residence of thirty years with the Indian tribes. Philadelphia ( 1851)
  • Scenes and adventures in the semi- alpine regions of the Ozark Mountains. Philadelphia ( 1853)
  • Man
  • Americans
  • Discoverer (19th Century )
  • Ethnologist
  • Born in 1793
  • Died in 1864
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