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Jane Johnston was born in Sault Ste. Marie in the Upper Peninsula of what is now the state of Michigan. Her mother, Ozhaguscodaywayquay , was the daughter of Waubojeeg , a prominent Ojibwe war chief and civil leader from what is now northern Wisconsin , and his wife.
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.
Henry Schoolcraft, the primary author and editor of the Literary Voyager.. The Literary Voyager, also known as The Muzzeniegun (Ojibwe for ‘book', also spelled Muzzinyegun [1]) was a manuscript magazine produced by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft between December 1826 and April 1827, for a total of 16 issues.
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 ...
In 1793, Johnston and his wife settled in the Sault to trade with the native residents there. [6] The couple had four sons and four daughters, including Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, who married notable author, explorer, and Native American culture expert Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. John Johnston was Justice of the Peace in Sault Ste Marie for many years.
Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (1800–1842), author, wife of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, born in Sault Ste. Marie John Smith (ca. 1824–1922, chief, from Cass Lake, Minnesota Alfred Michael "Chief" Venne (1879–1971), athletic manager and coach from Leroy, North Dakota
Jane Johnston was of Ojibwa and Scots-Irish descent, and wrote in Ojibwe and English. While her writing was not published formally in her lifetime (except as Schoolcraft appropriated it under his own name), Jane Johnston Schoolcraft has been recognized as "the first Native American literary writer, the first known Indian woman writer, the first ...
Scholars have established, however, that Leelinau was first used as a pen name by Schoolcraft's wife Jane Johnston Schoolcraft in writings for The Literary Voyager, a family magazine which she and her husband wrote together in the 1820s. [4] Jane Johnston was of Ojibwa and Scots-Irish descent, and wrote in Ojibwe and English.