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Schoolcraft, whose attention was especially drawn towards this chieftain on account of his drunken ferocity, and who paints him as one of the worst of many bad savages of his day, says: "He often freely indulged in liquor; and when excited, exhibited the flushed visage of a demon. On one occasion, two of his wives, or rather female slaves, had a dispute.
The decipherment of cuneiform inscriptions, and the study of Assyrian remains up to 1840 Ancient Iran and the Avesta The survey of India and the study of Hindustani The exploration and measurement of the Himalaya mountains The Arabian Peninsula Syria and Palestine Central Asia and Alexander von Humboldt Pike at the sources of the Mississippi, Arkansas, and Red River Major Long's two expeditions General Cass Schoolcraft at the sources of the Mississippi The exploration of New Mexico Archæological expeditions in Central America Scientific expeditions in Brazil Spix and Martin Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied D'Orbigny and American man.
We wrote a note to General Boden, as I found our old acquaintance Ben Boden was universally termed, letting him know I should visit Schoolcraft next day; not wishing to intrude at the moment when that charming family was just reunited after so long a separation. The next day, accordingly, we got into a "buggy" and went our way.
Schoolcraft, who some years after visited this romantic spot, gives the following interesting account of the scenery and strange life witnessed there.
To the Senate of the United States: I transmit herewith a communication from the Department of the Interior and the papers which accompanied it, being the first part of the results of investigations by Henry R. Schoolcraft, esq., under the provisions of an act of Congress approved March 3, 1847, requiring the Secretary of War "to collect and digest such statistics and materials as may illustrate the history, the present condition, and future prospects of the Indian tribes of the United States,"
I have had occasion again and again to note that collective interests are more considered by women; and individual interests by men. This, at least, is how I see it; and a study of the Indian maternal families seems to give confirmation to such a conclusion. Schoolcraft, Indian Tribes, p. 262, gives an account of these houses. A similar plan of living is reported of the Maya Indians.
They fought successfully with the Catawbas, Cowetas, and the Cherokees, and thought to exterminate by one decisive blow, all of the white inhabitants within their borders. Mr. Schoolcraft prefers, and quite justly the name Iroquois, as descriptive of this confederacy, instead of Six Nations, since the term is well known, and applicable to them in every part of their history.
That education, in its widest meaning, is the sole conservator and transmitter of civilization to successive generations found expression as far back as Aristotle and Plato, and has been vaguely voiced at intervals down through the centuries; but its complete establishment came only as an indirect issue of the great scientific discoveries of the nineteenth century, and its application to the problems of practical schoolcraft and its dissemination through the rank and file of teachers awaited the dawn of the twentieth century.
Didst learn that along with coopering?" "Nay, Mistress Priscilla, I was not dubbed cooper until I was a se'nnight old, or so." "Oho! Then thy schoolcraft all came in the first week of thy life. Eh?" "Have thy way, Priscilla. Thou knowst well enow thou canst not anger me." "Truly? Well I never cared to see a man maiden-meek. But thou canst write?" "Ay, and so canst thou, I have heard."
History, Biography, and Travels: Bancroft, Prescott, Motley, Godwin, Ticknor, Schoolcraft, Hildreth, Sparks, Irving, Headley, Stephens, Kane, Squier, Perry, Lynch, Taylor, and others. 2. Oratory: Webster, Clay, Calhoun, Benton, Everett, and others. 3. Fiction: Cooper, Irving, Willis, Hawthorne, Poe, Simms, Mrs. Stowe, and others. 4.
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