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What Jane Knew: Anishinaabe Stories and American Imperialism, 1815-1845

What Jane Knew: Anishinaabe Stories and American Imperialism, 1815-1845

Konkle, Maureen

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Native American HistoryLiterary Criticism19th Century United States History

ISBN10: 1469678438
ISBN13: 9781469678436
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: Apr 30 2024
Pages: 442
Weight: 1.49
Height: 0.98 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
The children of an influential Ojibwe-Anglo family, Jane Johnston and her brother George were already accomplished writers when the Indian agent Henry Rowe Schoolcraft arrived in Sault Ste. Marie in 1822. Charged by Michigan's territorial governor with collecting information on Anishinaabe people, he soon married Jane, discovered the family's writings, and began soliciting them for traditional Anishinaabe stories. But what began as literary play became the setting for political struggle. Jane and her family wrote with attention to the beauty of Anishinaabe narratives and to their expression of an Anishinaabe world that continued to coexist with the American republic. But Schoolcraft appropriated the stories and published them as his own writing, seeking to control their meaning and to destroy their impact in service to the civilizing interests of the United States.

In this dramatic story, Maureen Konkle helps recover the literary achievements of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft and her kin, revealing as never before how their lives and work shed light on nineteenth-century struggles over the future of Indigenous people in the United States.

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