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Musical setting of poem by Jane Johnston Schoolcraft. University of Michigan. Archived 2021-04-24 at the Wayback Machine; Dave Stanaway and Susan Askwith. CD: John Johnston: His Life and Times in the Fur Trade Era. Borderland Records. Included is the song "Sweet Willy, My Boy", with lyrics taken from a poem written by Jane Johnston Schoolcraft.
Ozhaguscodaywayquay (Ozhaawashkodewekwe: Woman of the Green Glade), also called Susan Johnston (c. 1775 – c. 1840), was an Ojibwe (also known as Ojibwa) woman and was an important figure in the Great Lakes fur trade before the War of 1812, as well as a political figure in Northern Michigan after the war.
Johnston went to Sault Ste. Marie, a journey which then took several weeks, where he settled on the south side of the river. There Johnston met Ozhaguscodaywayquay (Woman of the Green Glade), daughter of Waubojeeg (White Fisher), a prominent Ojibwe war chief and civil leader from what is now northern Wisconsin. Johnston fell in love with Chief ...
Jane was the eldest daughter of John Johnston, a prominent Scots-Irish fur trader, and his wife Ozhaguscodaywayquay (Susan Johnston), daughter of a leading Ojibwe chief, Waubojeeg, and his wife. Both of the Johnstons were of high status; they had eight children together, and their cultured, wealthy family was well known in the area.
Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Sault Ste. Marie Ojibwe, 1800–1841, first Native woman to publish [147] Bev Sellars , Xat'sull , Canada James Sewid , Kwakwaka'wakw , Canada, 1913–1988
Jane Johnson (born 1960) is an English writer of books for adults and children and fiction book editor. As a writer she has used the pseudonyms Gabriel King , jointly with M. John Harrison , and Jude Fisher , as well as her real name.
Dennis Banks, Leech Lake Ojibwe activist, teacher, lecturer, author and co-founder of the American Indian Movement Mary Brave Bird , Sicangu Lakota activist. She was a member of the American Indian Movement during the 1970s and participated in some of their most publicized events.
Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (1800–1842), Sault Ste. Marie Ojibwe writer; Anfesia Shapsnikoff (1901–1973), Aleut artist and educator; Joanne Shenandoah (Oneida Indian Nation, 1957–2022), singer and guitarist; Clara Sherman (Navajo, 1914–2010), weaver; Leslie Marmon Silko (born 1948), Laguna Pueblo descent writer