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When it is remembered that there are only forty-two of the Hiawatha Legends of Schoolcraft, out of which five books have been made by other authors, and that I have collected more than two hundred, it will be seen how these friends must have worked to aid me. The authorities consulted in writing this work were as follows: Tomah Josephs, Passamaquoddy, Indian Governor at Peter Dana's Point, Maine.
And I should like this evening to imagine that these graduates are undergoing an analogous initiation into the privileges and duties of schoolcraft, and that these vows which I shall enumerate, embody some of the ideals that govern the work of that craft.
Let us proceed in the accomplishment of this object with firmness, and with a determination never to relinquish it, until ardent spirits are entirely excluded from the Indian country. I am sir, Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, HENRY R. SCHOOLCRAFT. P.S. Capt. Jouett, commanding at this post, has recently seized sixteen kegs of high-wines.
Schoolcraft, in speaking of the Foxes says, "the history of their migrations and wars, shows them to have been a restless and spirited people, erratic in their dispositions, having a great contempt for agriculture, and a predominant passion for war."
I have already described these ceremonies in Totemism and Exogamy, iii. 237 sq. Schoolcraft did not know the date of the ceremony, but he conjectured that it fell at the end of the Iroquois year, which was a lunar year of twelve or thirteen months. Franz Boas, "The Eskimo of Baffin Land and Hudson Bay," Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural, History, xv. Part i.
It happens that the Indian traditions of this region possess more of the coherence of history than those of other parts of the country; and, as preserved by Schoolcraft and embalmed in the poetry of Longfellow, they show well enough by the side of the early traditions of other primitive peoples.
He was examined before the Sheriff on the twenty-ninth of October, and was committed for trial before this Court." These men had a story of startling interest to tell. Theirs were the fatal discoveries which had justified the Fiscal in charging my husband with the murder of his wife. The first of the witnesses was a sheriff's officer. He gave his name as Isaiah Schoolcraft. Examined by Mr.
It is a singular fact, that the peculiar government and national characteristics of the Iroquois is a most interesting field of research and inquiry, which has never been very thoroughly, if at all, investigated, although the historic events which marked the proud career of the confederacy have been perseveringly sought and treasured up in the writings of Stone, Schoolcraft, Hosmer, Yates and others.
In one, the Chippewa, given by Schoolcraft, the wretched efforts to rival the woodpeckers and bear are attributed to a no less personage than Hiawatha, or Manobozho, himself, when under a cloud. But Hiawatha as a poem deals only with the better part of the hero's character.
What can be more reasonable than to render one another mutually happy, when it costs so little, and does nobody any harm.” It would seem that these maternal peoples have solved many difficulties of domestic and social life better than we ourselves have done. Morgan, League of the Iroquois, p. 324. Heriot, op. cit., pp. 323, 329. Schoolcraft, op. cit., Vol. III, p. 191. Heriot, pp. 231-237.
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