Henry Schoolcraft – Turtle Talk

Fletcher Trip Up to the Soo

Here’s the Soo Locks, once the home of one of the greatest fisheries in the northern hemisphere, the subject of this treaty:

Now:

Dropped by Henry and Jane’s place, but I missed them by damn near 200 years:

Huh. Interesting inscription. Wonder what Jane would say about that.

Margaret Noori has published a book review essay on the recent collection of writings by Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (edited by Robert Dale Parker), the Ojibwekwe who married Henry Schoolcraft, the Michigan Indian Agent from the 1820s to the 1940s, or so. The review essay was published in the Michigan Quarterly Review.