| Book Review | The Michigan Historical Review, 33.2

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Robert Dale Parker, ed. The Sound the Stars Make Rushing through the Sky: The Writings of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. Pp. 288. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $34.95.
For nearly two centuries the reputation of Native American poet Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (1800–1842) has been overshadowed by that of her husband, the celebrated Indian agent and ethnographer Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. With the publication of Robert Dale Parker's excellent work, The Sound the Stars Make Rushing through the Sky: The Writings of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, however, that will no longer be the case.	1
The daughter of John Johnston, a British fur trader, and Ozhaguscodaywayquay (Susan Johnston), an Ojibwe woman—Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (Bamewawagezhikaquay) was the first published female Native American writer. Born in the northern Great Lakes country, she spent most of her life in Sault Ste. Marie, where the Johnstons centered their trading activities. Jane's interest in literature was encouraged by her father (who also wrote poetry) and nurtured in his large library.	2
The close of the War of 1812 brought American government to the Sault, in part in the person of the first American Indian agent there, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, whom Jane Johnston married in 1823 and with whom she had three children. The "ambitious, driven" (p. 20) Henry Schoolcraft shared Jane's literary interests, but Henry, whose self-promotion stands out even in an age of assertive individualism, was much more focused on publication than his wife was. Jane Johnston Schoolcraft published very little in her lifetime, while Henry Schoolcraft published constantly, making use of his wife's knowledge and family connections in his studies of Indian culture.	. . .

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