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    Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (March 28, 1793 – December 10, 1864) was an American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist, noted for his early studies of Native...
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    township is named for Henry Schoolcraft, noted for conducting many early land surveys throughout Michigan. The village of Schoolcraft is located on the western...
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  • Puk-Wudjie (another spelling, Puck-wudj-ininee, is translated by Henry Schoolcraft as "little wild man of the woods that vanishes"), is a human-like...
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  • the college officially changed the name to Schoolcraft College, after an American geologist Henry Schoolcraft. The school's name omits the word "community"...
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    Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, also known as Bamewawagezhikaquay (January 31, 1800 – May 22, 1842) is the one of earliest Native American literary writers...
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  • Allegan (category Henry Schoolcraft neologisms)
    Allegan is a city, county, and township in the U.S. state of Michigan: Allegan, Michigan Allegan County, Michigan Allegan Township, Michigan Allegan (meteorite)...
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  • Kalkaska (category Henry Schoolcraft neologisms)
    Kalkaska may refer to several places or things associated with the U.S. state of Michigan: Kalkaska, Michigan, a village in Kalkaska Township and county...
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  • Iosco (category Henry Schoolcraft neologisms)
    Iosco or IOSCO may refer to: International Organization of Securities Commissions Iosco County, Michigan Iosco Township, Michigan Iosco Township, Minnesota...
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    northern shore of Lake Michigan. The county is named in honor of Henry Schoolcraft, who explored the area with the expedition of Lewis Cass. The county...
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  • American author Henry Schoolcraft (1793–1864), American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist, husband of Mary Mary Howard Schoolcraft (1820-1878), American...
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  • Oscoda (category Henry Schoolcraft neologisms)
    Oscoda may refer to: Oscoda, Michigan, an unincorporated community in Iosco County Oscoda County, Michigan Oscoda Township, Michigan, in Iosco County This...
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    assimilationist vision of Henry Schoolcraft, the U.S. government official supervising Native American affairs and based at Mackinac Island. Schoolcraft noticed in the...
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    Henry Schoolcraft. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.98 square miles (2.54 km2), all land. Schoolcraft is...
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    often mistranslated as Elk Lake). The name was later changed by Henry Schoolcraft to "Itasca", coined from a combination of the Latin phrase veritas...
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  • Tuscola (category Henry Schoolcraft neologisms)
    Tuscola may refer to: Tuscola, Illinois Tuscola Township, Douglas County, Illinois Tuscola, Kentucky Tuscola County, Michigan Tuscola Township, Tuscola...
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  • Itasca (category Henry Schoolcraft neologisms)
    Itasca is a word coined by Henry Schoolcraft and may refer to: Lake Itasca, the source of the Mississippi River Itasca County, Minnesota Itasca Township...
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  • Leelanau (category Henry Schoolcraft neologisms)
    Look up Leelanau in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Leelanau may refer to a number of articles relating to the region of the northwestern Lower Peninsula...
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  • Alpena (category Henry Schoolcraft neologisms)
    Look up Alpena or alpena in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Alpena may refer to: Alpena, Michigan, the sole city in, and the county seat of Alpena County...
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    and lawn sprinkler systems. Henry Schoolcraft, The American Indians (1851) Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe (1851). Henry Schoolcraft's History of American Indians...
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  • Alcona (category Henry Schoolcraft neologisms)
    Alcona may refer to: Alcona, a railway flag stop in Sioux Lookout, Kenora District, Ontario, Canada Alcona, a community in Innisfil, Ontario, Canada Alcona...
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  • Algoma (category Henry Schoolcraft neologisms)
    Algoma may refer to: Algoma Central Railway, Northern Ontario Algoma Central Corporation Algoma Foundry and Machine Company, Algoma, Wisconsin, U.S. Algoma...
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    the same size as the Mississippi itself. The river is named after Henry Schoolcraft, who mapped the region and discovered nearby Lake Itasca as the source...
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    Detroit and Saginaw. The name Tuscola was a neologism created by Henry Schoolcraft and had an aboriginal root. That source likely was the native Ojibwe...
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    the Indian agent, Henry Schoolcraft, about a war party from Leech Lake, departing to pursuit the Dakota. They met with Schoolcraft, accompanied by an...
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    on the banks of the Mississippi River near Grand Rapids and Deer River. It was named for the explorer Henry Schoolcraft. Schoolcraft State Park v t e...
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    languages. The term Algic was first coined by Henry Schoolcraft in his Algic Researches, published in 1839. Schoolcraft defined the term as "derived from the...
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    the Crow Wing River. After the expeditions by Giacomo Beltrami and Henry Schoolcraft, the longest stream above the juncture of the Crow Wing River and...
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    Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut, Father Louis Hennepin, Jonathan Carver, Henry Schoolcraft, and Joseph Nicollet mapped the state. The region was part of Spanish...
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    the human use of wild rice. For example, geographer and ethnologist Henry Schoolcraft in the mid-1800s wrote about depressions in the ground on the shore...
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    The Anishinaabeg say the mother's name means "nourishment", but Henry Schoolcraft suggests the name is from the Dakota Winona ("first-born daughter")...
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