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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.
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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 was the daughter of a wealthy Scots-Irish fur trader and his Ojibwe wife, who was daughter of an Ojibwe chief. Johnston Schoolcraft was born in 1800 and lived most of her life in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, where she grew up in both cultures and learned French, English and Ojibwe. She wrote in English and Ojibwe.
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
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
It includes Ojibwe writers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "Ojibwe women writers" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.