Schoocraft's Indian Legends is drawn primarily from Henry Rowe Schoolcraft's 1839 edition of Algic Researches -- a rare, yet often cited, publication. However, stories from two later Schoolcraft collections, Oneota and The Myth of Hiawatha, are also included in an appendix. With a new foreword by Philip P Mason, this book is designed to reaquaint America with one of its often-neglected geniuses.
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Schoocraft's Indian Legends is drawn primarily from Henry Rowe Schoolcraft's 1839 edition of Algic Researches -- a rare, yet often cited, publication. However, stories from two later Schoolcraft collections, Oneota and The Myth of Hiawatha, are also included in an appendix. With a new foreword by Philip P Mason, this book is designed to reaquaint America with one of its often-neglected geniuses.
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Very Good in Good jacket. Ex-library, tape marks on ffep. DJ edgewear and tears. Myths and legends of Great lakes Indians taken from a number of Schoolcraft's writings. It is apparent when studying Schoolcraft's writing that he was clearly one of the first European Americans to recognize the merit and value of the Native American heritage as expressed in oral tradition.
