The Myth of Hiawatha and Other Stories of the North American Indians

Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793–1864) was an American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist, known for his early scholarship on Native American cultures and his extensive research on indigenous tribes in the United States, particularly those of the Great Lakes region. His seminal work, 'The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians' (1856), is ...