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.
Here is Patrick LeBeau’s fine review of Robert Dale Parker’s “The Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky: The Writings of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft.”
Robert Dale Parker (Illinois) will be speaking here on Monday, January 26, 2009 at 11AM. The talk is at the Castle Board Room at the MSU College of Law. Lunch will be served at noon, and it is FREE!
Prof. Meg Noori (Michigan) and Prof. Pat LeBeau (MSU) will serve as commentators.
Prof. Parker will be speaking about his book “The Sound the Stars Make Rushing through the Sky: The Writings of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft” (Penn. Press). His website about the book and Jane Schoolcraft is here.
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.
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