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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.
[4] Johnston was considered the first permanent European-American settler in Sault Ste. Marie. [5] The Johnstons' cedar log house on Water Street in Sault Ste. Marie was built in 1796 in a French colonial style. [6] When their eldest daughter Jane married Henry Schoolcraft, the US Indian agent, the Johnstons built an addition for them to live ...
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.
Dennis Esquivel, painter and fine woodworker, enrolled member of the Grand Traverse Band. The Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians (Ojibwe: Gichi-wiikwedong Odaawaag miina ojibweg) is a federally recognized Native American tribe located in northwest Michigan on the Leelanau Peninsula.
The government tried to ensure against British agitation of the Ojibwa. 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 ...
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
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